[plug] Installing Debian

[Ari Finander]

I have the distributions sharing a swap partition, but I didn't make
any specific boot partitions, and it appears that they're installed as
directories and not partitions in RH7.0 and Debian2.2r2.  I could
simply combine the two in the RH7.0 /boot directory, as I did with
mandrake7.2, and not worry about /boot in the debian partition, right?
This leads me to other quesitons:
There's been suggestions following this email to the group that other
directories can be mounted on their own partitions and used
interchangeably with each linux distro install.  Which directories are
these?  If using the same /home directory for both distros on a
separate (?) partition of the HDD, where should I install programs for
each distro?  I'm assuming that a red hat .rpm won't work if installed
on a shared partition with debian while running debian, right?

TIA,

Ari

Original message from: "Simon Scott (SSC)" <simon.scott at flexiplan.com>
>
>This touches on an interesting topic that maybe you should keep in
mind.
>
>When you have 2 or more different distros installed on one machine,
you dont
>need a distinct set of partitions for each.
>
>For example, as you have found out you *need* to share a /boot
partition
>otherwise lilo coughs up.
>
>You can also share swap partitions I believe, and obviously you would
want
>to share /home
>
>Beyond that things would start to get hairy as the differences beween
>distros would probably bite you on the ass with /usr, /var etc.
>
>/etc would be a definite no no.
>
>Just out of interests sake, obviously I would need read/write access
to
>/home and /var, but would it work if I mounted all the other
partitions as
>read only? Im thinking it would be a good idea to leave everything
possible
>read only unless installing new software, at which point you could
remount
>read/write.
>
>This is also interesting from the perspective of running a thin-ish
client
>with the major partitions mounted via NFS. You would only really need
/boot
>and /var on the client I believe? Might be cool to try.
>
>Anyone played with this sort of thing?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matt Kemner [mailto:zombie at wasp.net.au]
>Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 11:41 AM
>To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>Subject: Re: [plug] Installing Debian
>
>
>Hi Ari
>
>On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Ari Finander wrote:
>
>> 1- If you install the OS to boot from a floppy and not the HDD (I
>> didn't want LILO to mess up my previous RH lilo which is working
well
>> for RH and Windows) how can one go about changing things so it will
>> boot from the HDD (assuming RH LILO is configured correctly)?
>
>Copy the kernel (most likely called "linux") to your RedHat /boot
>partition and add a stanza like you did for Mandrake.
>
>> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
>> Unable to communicate with X server!
>
>That is a generic error saying "It didn't work" - you need to provide
the
>real error message, which should be contained in the lines above
these
>ones.
> 
>What are you using to configure X?
>XF86Setup is the easiest to use, but may not work with all chipsets.
>"apt-get install xf86setup" if you want to try it.
>
>Otherwise, try "xf86config" which is the old text-based way to
configure X
>
> - Matt
>
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