*- On 24 Jul, Wayne Topa wrote about "Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?" > > Subject: Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs? > Date: Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 11:26:02PM +1000 > > In reply to:Andrew White > > Quoting Andrew White([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> In addition to this, Is there any problems sharing the same /home between 2 >> distros. >> > Not for the _same_ distro, it isn't. I do share /home with hamm and > slink. I tried it with Slackware and Slink and screwed Slink up > badly! Seems that slackeware starts their user id's at 500, whereas > Debian starts them at 1000. Took me a while to fix all of that mess. > I would not recommend it to anyone. > > HTH, YMMV, HAND >
The thing to do is make sure that as soon as you get the individual distributions set up you need to edit the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files to be consistent between each with regards to uid #'s and gid #'s. Once this is done you shouldn't have any problems. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
