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debian3.0 & fc2 on same machine

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debian3.0 & fc2 on same machine

#1 Post by owa »

I'm currently using FC2(2.6.7Netraverse enables)Win4Lin. I have 2 40G hd's. I intend to keep FC2 on one hd and install Debian3.0 on the other. Are there any special considerations or pitfalls I should be aware of?
I have a partition on hd0 (hda4) set up as my home directory, and mounted as /nome. Can I share /home with both distributions, or should I keep them separate, and mount them individually in fstab in /mnt/home-on-hda and /mnt/home-on-hdc ?
If I upgrade the debian kernel to 2.6.7, do I use the 2.6.7 kernel from kernel.org, or should I download one from a preferred debian source .... or is there such a thing?
Knowlege and understanding beforehand saves cursing and 'now what's afterwards.
Thanks for any help.
owa

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Re: debian3.0 & fc2 on same machine

#2 Post by aigarius »

owa wrote:Can I share /home with both distributions, or should I keep them separate, and mount them individually in fstab in /mnt/home-on-hda and /mnt/home-on-hdc ?
You should not share the home directory, because you will propably have different versions of programms on both sides and this leads to no-end of possible complications and sometimes might even lead to a data loss.
owa wrote:If I upgrade the debian kernel to 2.6.7, do I use the 2.6.7 kernel from kernel.org, or should I download one from a preferred debian source .... or is there such a thing?
You can use the stock (kernel.org) kernel or you can 'apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.7' which has some extra fixes backported from next kernel versions and some features added.

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#3 Post by dickr »

What you can do:
- share swap partition(s)
- share /tmp partition (debian cleans it out at boot-up. Be aware of that)
- share an extra additional data-partition (e.g. /mnt/transfer)
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#4 Post by saintshakajin »

You can use the same /home partition if you add another user. I've a Debian & a Mandrake on my computer. I use the same swap for both Linux and the same /home but with 2 users (saintshakajin & ssj) so there isn't any problem and you've only one home partition :)

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