Hi, Geoff: Yes. Although the files (filesystem(s)) are not 'transferred'. The filesystem is 'mounted'. Each OS must be capable of mounting the filesystem's type: second extended, reiserfs, third extended, minix, fat, vfat, ...whatever.
I get the impression that each of the two distributions you mention are on a separate physical hard drive. This is not necessary. One can have multiple operating systems on a single physical drive. Each would need a separate partition, AFAIK. HTH, Chuck geoff wrote: > > I have a dual-boot Linux system. Debian 3.0 (Woody), and SuSE 8.0 (Prof)., > on separate drives sharing a common machine (Pentium III at 600 MHz). > > Both work well, and I am enjoying learning the differences between them, > running > them as separate alternatives. > > Would it be inadvisable to have a third hard disk drive on the same shared > machine, > which is mountable on either distro, in order to enable files from (say) > Debian to be transfered > into SuSE, (or vice-vers) or would I be asking for trouble ? > > Can I use a common device (say) /dev/hdc as a common part of two > partition systems ? > > A possible use would be to YaST/ RPM into Debian, or APT/ DEB into SuSE. > > Best regards, > > Geoff Bagley > G3FHL. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
