Patrick Bartek wrote: <snip> > You don't need multiple swaps: Linux can share one without problems. and what happens if an active linux is put into suspend/sleep and system is rebooted? > A shared /boot partition is possible, too. possible, but not practical if grubs are for different distribs that are using different stages. also, when you chain, you have to select what you want from each grub prompt. > However, I would not share any others, and that includes /home. /home can be shared, if care is taken for login directory names and user id's. > The best way to boot multiple Linuxes is to have grub of your primary too long to reply to all. see my post of 01:38 utc. > This is the way I have my box set up, which at the moment only has Fedora > 12 and 9 installed, but at one time, I had about 6 Linux distros on it. i do not say that there is a lot wrong with what you are doing, but there are better ways. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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