On Wednesday 17 May 2006 02:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote this for perusal by us all: >---> Could you advise me on the best setup for me to switch between SuSE and > Debian? ---> I have two 80gb hard drives and a CDROM r/w and a DVD r/w > drive. ---> Is it best to put both systems on different partitions of the > same hard drive or ---> one on each drive? >---> Should the drives be primary and secondary or both primary? >---> Also, what are the best placements for the CDROM and DVD drives? >---> Is it best to have a DOS partition on one or other of the hard drives? >---> Many thanks for advice >---> Don Parsons >---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >---> --
When experimenting to discover what flavour of Linux I liked best, I had several Linux distros on one hard drive They shared the same swap partition, but when I attempted to use the same home partition, their were constant conflicts. Each had their own "/", /home, /usr partition. I didn't go further than that. There was a windows partition and others that were never formatted on any of the installs, like documents and graphics and the virtual memory partition for windows. I used Lilo mostly also for booting at that time. But depending what Linux distro I was in I often had to change the permission of the spare partitions. So chown them in different distro's again or I would get error messages. It wasn't onerous because I was trying things out but for constant use it might be a bit too much trouble. The distros I used were Linux Red Hat, Linux Mandrake and Linux Slackware. HTH Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Gaining enlightenment is an accident. Spiritual practice simply makes us accident-prone. ----------------- ZEN SAYING *********************************************** Brilliant Debian Sarge 3.1 ___________________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
