*- On 24 Jul, Mark Brown wrote about "Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?" > On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 11:22:26AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > >> 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. > > The trick is to keep the numeric UID and GID information in sync. NIS > is a wonderful thing. >
But this won't help a multi-boot machine unless there is another machine in the network serving as NIS server. For a stand alone home machine your only choice is to edit by hand. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
