As I said recently I'm thinking of installing Fedora 7, will it "play nicely" with my existing Slackware installation? Has anyone else here got two versions of Linux dual-booting on the same hardware?
There's lots of space to spare, the filesystem where Slackware is installed is only 9% used so that could easily be split to make space for Fedora. /home is a separate filesystem and can presumably be left as is for both Fedora and Slackware to use.
Any problems likely? Will Fedora offer to squash the Slackware root filesystem and make space for itself there?
Chris,
As I said recently I'm thinking of installing Fedora 7, will it "play nicely" with my existing Slackware installation? Has anyone else here got two versions of Linux dual-booting on the same hardware?
I currently have debian and arch linux on my desktop system, (alongside hurd :D ). I'd be cautious of sharing the /home partition, just because it is likely that you will have different versions of packages on the two systems, which will mean different versions of configuration files, which could cause some entertainment.
Rob.
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 04:16:05PM +0100, Rob Page wrote:
Chris,
As I said recently I'm thinking of installing Fedora 7, will it "play nicely" with my existing Slackware installation? Has anyone else here got two versions of Linux dual-booting on the same hardware?
I currently have debian and arch linux on my desktop system, (alongside hurd :D ). I'd be cautious of sharing the /home partition, just because it is likely that you will have different versions of packages on the two systems, which will mean different versions of configuration files, which could cause some entertainment.
That could be an issue I guess but since I'm a bit of a command line freak I'm not sure that there will be all that many configuratiion files in my home directory that I actually use. Anyway I'm used to that sort of problem, at work I have Fedora 7 and Solaris sharing the same home directory!
Chris
As others have said, they will live fine together but when sharing the home directory make sure you have the same ID for the user(s).
Keith
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From: main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk on behalf of Chris G Sent: Sun 23/09/2007 4:47 PM To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Will Fedora 7 play happily with another version on Linux?
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 04:16:05PM +0100, Rob Page wrote:
Chris,
As I said recently I'm thinking of installing Fedora 7, will it "play nicely" with my existing Slackware installation? Has anyone else here got two versions of Linux dual-booting on the same hardware?
I currently have debian and arch linux on my desktop system, (alongside hurd :D ). I'd be cautious of sharing the /home partition, just because it is likely that you will have different versions of packages on the two systems, which will mean different versions of configuration files, which could cause some entertainment.
That could be an issue I guess but since I'm a bit of a command line freak I'm not sure that there will be all that many configuratiion files in my home directory that I actually use. Anyway I'm used to that sort of problem, at work I have Fedora 7 and Solaris sharing the same home directory!
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Rob Page