hey,
A common swap partition might work, in fact I don't see any reason why it should'nt. As for the other two partitions, a common /boot will definitely not work. You need to have seperate /boot partitions for each distro. A common /home might just work if you have the same user accounts on each of the distros and their UID/GIDs are also the same, which is highly unlikely. I presume, that you're not a Linux expert, or else you would not have asked this question. I would suggest you to have a single swap and a single / for all the other distros, otherwise the number of partitions will soon become unmanageable.
1. Commom swap is no problem at all.
2. /home : Install each version on a seperate partition and keep a single /home . The thing about UID and GID's can be tackled if you edit
each versions's /etc/passwd and syncronize your UID/GID's you dont have to be an expert to do that.
3. /boot : After each install just rename the kernel to be mandrake_vmlinuz and debain_vmlinuz and so on and so forth.
take care about the system.map and Initrd images too if you use one. dont forget to reflect the changes in your boot loader.
all in all its do-able.
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