Re: [ilugd] Multiple Installations of Linux

2004-04-30 Thread Sharninder
Kunal Singhal (Linux) wrote: One small query. I wanna install four different version of Linux on my system... Red Hat Fedora, Mandrake, Suse, ELX. What I want to know is that while making the partition structure can I make a common partition among the above four version for 1) Swap 2) Home 3)

[ilugd] Re: Multiple Installations of Linux

2004-04-30 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2004-04-30 14:06:13 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for the other two partitions, a common /boot will definitely not work. You need to have seperate /boot partitions for each distro. Why? I've had different kernels with different root= arguments all being booted by the same bootloader

Re: [ilugd] Re: Multiple Installations of Linux

2004-04-30 Thread Sharninder
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: At 2004-04-30 14:06:13 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for the other two partitions, a common /boot will definitely not work. You need to have seperate /boot partitions for each distro. Why? I've had different kernels with different root= arguments all being

[ilugd] Re: Multiple Installations of Linux

2004-04-30 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2004-04-30 14:34:01 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're talking about different kernels but the same distro, I presume. No. I had two kernels which booted three different distributions between them, IIRC. I just had to tell the bootloader to append different root= parameters in each case.

[ilugd] Modem and Ethernet

2004-04-30 Thread Deepak Saun
Dear Friends, I am a novice in Linux. I only subscribed to this mailing list to see what is going on in Linux front and definitly I have gained a lot. Thanks for that. Could any of you can help me in this trivial matter? I have PCQ2004 installed in my PC. Can you tell me whether

Re: [ilugd] Multiple Installations of Linux

2004-04-30 Thread Pankaj Kaushal
Sharninder wrote: 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

Re: [ilugd] Modem and Ethernet

2004-04-30 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
On Saturday, May 01, 2004 6:25 AM [GMT+0800=SGT], Deepak Saun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends, I am a novice in Linux. I only subscribed to this mailing list to see what is going on in Linux front and definitly I have gained a lot. Thanks for that. Could any of you

[ilugd] ILUG-D activity in last 7 days

2004-04-30 Thread nkapoor
Fri 30-Apr-2004:: ILUG-D activity in last 7 days: = New events:1 Total events:24 - What:ILUGD April meeting ILUGD - Debian, Localization and Desktop related Discussions.

Re: [ilugd] Visual Basic Access Alternate under Linux

2004-04-30 Thread Kunal Singhal \(Linux\)
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Re: [ilugd] Re: [ilug-goa] Oracle for Linux, CDs

2004-04-30 Thread Vaibhav Sharma
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 08:27 am, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: Vaibhav Sharma said on Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 07:27:08PM -0400,: Does anyone has Oracle Database Server (10g or 9i) CDs for Linux? In case, yes kindly mail me off the list and I will get in touch with you. You should approach