Re: Mandrake 10 vs. Suse 9.1
From: anc (anc_at_nospam.net)
Date: 05/20/04
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Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 20:14:00 +0100
houghi wrote:
> anc wrote:
>> You first install one linux OS i.e. Suse (grub uses mbr) then install
>> each of the other distos into a free / and /home partition using the
>> common /swap partition.
>
> If you do a dualboot with Windows, I sugest you start with that, as it
> overwrites the mbr.
>
> Question. Could one not use 1 /home for all of them? I could also
> imagine other parts could be used together as well. /opt? /usr?
>
> In fact what can one NOT share with other distro's. What REALY makes the
> difference, expet Yast and such?
>
Hi Houghi, goede avond. Yes, you are right and must start with the windows
dOS first. Secondly as you can only ever have 4 primary partitions, you must
then create an extended partition (no need to format it and use linux to
partition this space).
You could use a common /home partition excepet that mandrake does not use
the same group names as suse i.e.
anc@orac:~> ls -l popsneaker.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 anc users 36520 2004-05-19 23:43 popsneaker.log
In Mandrake the same file would be owned by anc and group anc. In SuSe which
does not use the group anc you would see the group as 500. There was an
article in linux magazine on dual booting which used software to share
one /home directory amongst systems and changed group names... however
maybe slightly more wasteful of space I use separate / and /home partitions
for each distribution.
The difference between distributions is as you say the management tools,
i.e. yast for suse, drakconf for mandrake etc. It is nice to see the
customisation that other vendors have put into their distribution though.
Mandrake has the supermount feature for removable media (which I dislike)
and Slackware is almost bare of scripts and utilities. This is a weakness
as its no good for newbies but a strength, because if things go wrong in
Slackware, it is generally your own configuration work that has failed. I
have to admit (cough) that Slackware is the only distribution that I have
got all my hardware working properly on a Dell latitude labtop. The main
problem a Unex pcmcia card,
SuSe worked with it but had to reset the network, Mandrake refused to
install on the labtop and after manually configuring pcmcia on Slack
everything worked.
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