Fw: Sharing swap and /boot

Stephen J. Smith sjs at khadrin.com
Wed Jun 9 10:37:21 EDT 2004


On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 10:03, Josh Glover wrote:
> Installers that blow away /boot are evil. Yes, you can share /boot between
> multiple distros--why not use the same kernel on SuSE and Fedora? They are
> both running on the same hardware, after all.

Interesting.  I'll have to try that some time.

> Are you sure that you told the installer to preserve data on boot? If the
> installer does not give you the option, you can always let it put /boot on the
> / partition, and then tweak /etc/fstab afterwards.

Oh no, not sure at all.  I messed it up one time and was a little
nervous about trying it again I guess.  Not anymore, thanks!



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