Talk:Install Another Distribution

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Home Directory

Why would you not use the same home directory for several Linux distributions. Worked well till now for me with 2 different versions I boot from time to time. Have not seen any negative effects till now.

There are many. the user home hosts all the applications preferences and this can differ from one distribution to another. Sharing here is dangerous.

Page renamed

I moved the page to a "sane" MediaWiki name. Spaces in article names are allowed, actually they are prefered to CamelStyle. I hope I didn't disturb you too much while writing this useful article! --Keichwa 11:06, 10 Aug 2005 (MDT)

really youd did :-) I was a moment before getting the page again :-).

In fact I dislike the space separated system, this gives me headhaches in many occasions (out of this wiki). Thats minor :-)

Thanks for your generosity! In the past I thought the same, but since two or three years I'm used to filenames with spaces and I think they are perfectly okay ;) --Keichwa 12:22, 10 Aug 2005 (MDT)

The name is "SUSE Linux"

There is no "SUSE". The system is called "SUSE Linux" resp. "SUSE Linux OSS". --Keichwa 11:07, 9 Oct 2005 (MDT)

Swap

I use this sort of config on two of my systems as I often need betas or weird setups. I would definitely not share /home as /home between the two systems because the new one could need different things and break the old one. I use a /home on some of my stable systems to save that data securely on an update.

But one thing you didn't mention is swap. You need swap, but you can just share the one swap with both systems.

In addition to a shared /data for stuff you need most, you can mount the partitions from each system to the other so you can copy or read things you need.

But it is up to you if and how to incorporate. I hope you don't mind the minor editing I did.