Yes, I have Slackware and Debian on the same system. The only things I share are the swap partition, /opt and an unusual partition I use called /archive which holds my software archives, downloads, html, music, graphics, and shared data files.
I tried to share /home, but gave up because of the userid problems between systems. Doing with system dirs like /usr, /var, /etc, /tmp etc. should NOT be tried because of userid, permissions, ownerships and numerous other mismatches. I keep several commonly used programs in /opt which includes mainly third party software which I install manually to be used by both systems. The following programs run perfectly well from /opt across both systems: netscape, xv, maxwell, abiword, WordPerfect Ted, jdk1.2, nasm, BlueFish and numerous scripts and programs. All these programs are statically linked & would run independently. Note : "/opt/bin" is on my default path set in /etc/profile of both systems. USM Bish On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 12:34:07PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Another question (It's half off-topic, I know): > I'm installing Red Hat. Is there anyone that has 2 different linux OS's in > the same machine, and was able to optimize disk space? Say, symlink a few > directories (/home, for example) from one installation to another? It would > not only optimize disk space, but it would keep the same user files under > both installations. > > Thanks again, > Gaucho >
