[plug] Sharing swap partition

[garry]

Brett,

I'd suggest Woody instead of Potato.. It's release as STABLE is imminent, and 
it really is stable to use.. I use it on an old laptop, and will be replacing 
Mandrake from my desktop machine soon. Development and probably fixes for 
Potato will end eventually, maybe when Woody is finally released?

I have, and PLUG has, a mini iso of Woody which will get you up and running 
on a 2.4.17 kernel, 4.something xfree86 etc. Then go to the UWA ucc session 
to enjoy the mirror at 10Mb.. mmmm, bandwidth. Once one machine has been 
updated at ucc at 10Mb, it is simple to copy the .debs from it to the other 
machines by doing a cp /var/cache/apt/archives/*.debs...

The upgrade from potato to woody is pretty ugly with respect to X, and I 
think it would be perhaps a regretable repeat of the RH6.2 devotion should 
you start with Potato... If you want a copy of the woody mini cd I don't mind 
burning it and getting it to you, or you might choose to go to the PLUG 
library or LinuxWA.

Regards,

Garry

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:14, Bret Busby wrote:
> We are in the process of some system builds. Amongst the OS's that we
> intend to instal on each computer, we intend to instal RH7.3 and Debian
> spud.
>
> To maximise the limited space of the 8GB under which the boot partitions
> need to be installed, we wonder whether a 128MB swap partition could be
> created and shared between RH7.3 and Debian spud.
>
> Advice will be appreciated wrt this.
>
> Thanks in anticipation.