Re: 2 distros

2002-04-09 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Richard Cobbe quotation: > > 3) Install Debian on the new partitions. There are some issues with >uids and so forth, but you may be able to share your /home partition >between distributions. (This assumes you have a separate partition >for /home, of course.) Also you can shar

Re: 2 distros

2002-04-08 Thread Michael D. Crawford
If you're wanting to install a second distro, but you didn't plan ahead for it, it's likely that doing the second installation would be troublesome for you, because you would need some hard drive partitions you hadn't planned for. One option in this case is to use User Mode Linux. This is a v

Re: 2 distros

2002-04-08 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 April 2002 09:16 pm, j y wrote: > Hi, Greetings: >I'm even having problems sending this message. I don't know if its > because I'm knew to linux, or brain drain. All your posts were sent to thousands of people which would indicate tha

Re: 2 distros

2002-04-08 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, April 8, j y did write: [reformatted for 70 columns] > Hi I'm using Suse 7.3 right now and I want to put debian on my hard > drive. Is there an easy way to do this. I'm into easy if > possible. thanks I'm assuming you want to install the two distributions in parallel, right? It's

Re: 2 distros

2002-04-08 Thread Luca Pasquali
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:57:35PM -0500, j y wrote: > Hi I'm using Suse 7.3 right now and I want to put debian on my hard drive. Is > there an > easy way to do this. I'm into easy if possible. thanks > simple thing: erase your suse :) luca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: 2 distros coexisting?

2002-01-15 Thread Ron Johnson
Roderick Cummings wrote: You have to start somewhere... And Mandrake has been pretty good to me. It's only flaw that I see is that it is based on RH/RPM. If it was based on .deb, apt* & dpkg, it would be perfect... No it would be progeny. (er ... would have been) Anyone heard of Libranet

Re: 2 distros coexisting?

2002-01-15 Thread Roderick Cummings
You have to start somewhere... And Mandrake has been pretty good to me. It's only flaw that I see is that it is based on RH/RPM. If it was based on .deb, apt* & dpkg, it would be perfect... No it would be progeny. (er ... would have been) _

Re: 2 distros coexisting?

2002-01-13 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 14:47, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Currently, my /dev/hda1 in unused, and I'd like to do a network > install of Woody on it without disturbing my existing Mandrake > installation. > > Is there any way to share /dev/hda6

Re: 2 distros coexisting?

2002-01-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 January 2002 05:52 pm, Sander Smeenk wrote: > Quoting Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [snip] > In general I would advise against sharing anything :) > ( Why run Mandrake if you have Debian... *grins* ) You have to start somewhere... And

Re: 2 distros coexisting?

2002-01-13 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 05:47:12PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: | Currently, my /dev/hda1 in unused, and I'd like to do a network | install of Woody on it without disturbing my existing Mandrake | installation. | | Is there any way to share /dev/hda6 & /dev/hda7 between the 2 | distros, and put D

Re: 2 distros coexisting?

2002-01-13 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Is there any way to share /dev/hda6 & /dev/hda7 between the 2 > distros, and put Debian in /dev/hda1 (don't mind if it's > reformatted) without touching any of the other partitions? Of > course, both distros could share /dev/hda2 & /dev/hde1. I don't s