Re: [LI] 2 distros, one computer

["T. N. Venkatesh" <tnv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Atul Chitnis wrote:

> > At present I have RH5.2 and 6.0 (previously slackware) on 
> > different partitions. The swap partition IS shared between the two 
> > linux versions. 
> 
> For a while I had a similar setup, except that my /home was also shared. I
I too have my /home and also the /usr/local (where I install extra
stuff )  shared. 

> have a feeling that *that* was not a good idea, but it seemed to work - I
 	               WHY ? 
If the home dir was not shared, it would be quite inconvenient. 

TNV
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