Dual Boot two Linux OS's?

[VRay]

I have been dual booting Redhat7 and windows, but I never use the windows anymore and would like to try another linux distro (probably debian). Any issues I should be aware of? LILO will do this no problem?

[klamath]

Yep, no problems AFAIK.

You can share some stuff between the 2 distros (like /home, /tmp and the swap partition), if you like.

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[VRay]

Shot, the sharing sounds like something I would want to do. Any links or NHF's on this subject?

Debian here I come...

[Whipping Boy]

You don't want Debian, you want http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/cool.gifSlackware http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/cool.gif.

But anyway, yeah. Just put each directory you want to share (but make sure that /root, /bin, and / are all on the same partition) on a separate partition, and mount them like any other filesystem.

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[Whipping Boy]

klamath beat me to it (about sharing /home and /tmp, etc.). If it's between two similar distros (i.e. Slack and Dragon), you may be able to share /usr as well. /bin needs to be on the root partition, though, as does /root, /boot, /etc, and /lib

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Kurt Weber
Shell scripts? Shell scripts? We don't NEED no stinkin' shell scripts!
White, heterosexual, middle-class, and proud!
I've never understood why Bill Gates would name his company after his penis

[This message has been edited by Whipping Boy (edited 28 January 2001).]