I can't speak to "inadvisable", but the approach you ask about is perfectly
feasible. A common use of this sort of setup is to have a /home partition
that is common to the two distros.
It is more than you need, though. Each distro can mount the other's root
partition (and its other partitions, depending on what you created)
directly on any convenient mount point(s).
For example, if you have Debian's root (/) partition on /dev/hda1 and
SuSE's on /dev/hdb1, you can mount the SuSE partition on Debian with these
two commands (run as root):
mkdir /mnt/SuSE_root
mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/SuSE_root
The first line just creates the mount point (assuming /mnt already exists,
as it usually does) and need be done only once. The second does the actual
mount and needs to be done whenever you reboot (modify the -t argument if
you use a different filesystem type). Or, once you've created the mount
point, you can add a line to /etc/fstab to automount it every time (a look
at /etc/fstab will probably be enough for you to figure this part out).
BTW, for converting packages between .rpm and .deb, you might want to look
at "alien".
At 08:52 AM 10/2/02 +0100, 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.
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