I like to tinker with my Linux boxes, just as I have everything working perfectly I have to do something to make life more interesting. Last night, after backing up all my ripped cd's/mp3s, I decided to reinstall everything. Here's roughly what I now have on my system:
/dev/hda1 Windows XP
/dev/hda2 Ubuntu
/dev/hda3 swap for ubuntu
/dev/hda4 Logical volume
/dev/hda5 SuSE 9.2 Professional
/dev/hda6 swap for suse
/dev/hda7 vfat data drive for exchanging between windows and linux
Amazingly, this setup worked the first time I installed, or almost... I had to do a bit of grub tweaking in SuSE, but it was because of my lack of familiarity with grub (I'm more familiar with lilo), and a misplaced character.
I installed the system by installing Windows XP first, Ububtu second, and SuSE last. Windows XP froze during the hardware detection phase and required a reboot, but it worked after the reboot. I had to pay special attention to the Ubuntu install because I did NOT want to put Ubuntu's grub on the boot loader. The SuSE install was a new install for me as well because I did a minimal install without KDE and GNOME, this lead to some interesting results, including discovering a major flaw in the novell implementation of fvwm2. Apparently novell forgot to secure fvwm2, because I can launch any of the yast2 modules without using the root password. Novell has done a great job of toughening up KDE, but it looks like their minimal install got left by the wayside. Any local user who uses fvwm2 can practically do anything with the system without the root password.
Other than that major boo-boo, everything runs beautifully. I've moved all my music and radio shows back on to the hard drive, unfortunately, at 30GB I really don't have space to make sure all my files are accessible by all partitions, but that's what my desktop machine is for.
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Hi Charles,
You used two different partitions for your swapspace - Did you try just sharing one partion for swap on the two different OS? The reason I ask, is that I am considering running two different distros on my machine here, and I had formulated a scheme to have /dev/hda1 as boot, /dev/hda2 as swap, /dev/hda3 as distro 1, and /dev/hda4 as distro 2 - I thought I could share the swap. Since I have not actually attempted this, I don't know if it will work. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
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