I'm a relative newbie to linux with a working Red Hat 6.0 system, but I would like to migrate to Debian. To do so I would like to install to a second hd, and keep my Red Hat until I've felt out Debian, but I have a few questions.
One of the things I use the linux box for is an FTP server for my LAN, and I was wondering if it is okay to share the /home/ftp/pub directory between the 2 distros so that as it gets modified in one distro the modifications will be updated in the other. For example if my partitions are: hda /dev/hda1 /boot /dev/hda2 / /dev/hda3 /usr /dev/hda4 swap hdb /dev/hdb1 /boot /dev/hdb2 / /dev/hdb3 /usr /dev/hdb4 swap /dev/hdb5 /home/ftp/pub shared between both distros will this work? I should be able to boot the second distro through the existing lilo file on my mbr of hda correct? I need to edit lilo.conf but then what is the rest of the proceedure for that? One other question for now. The second hd is a 15.2 gb Ibm which is autodetected in the bios, are there any problems with that, or are there boot parameters I should have in Lilo?
