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Daevid Vincent wrote: |
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> Currently I dual-boot my notebook with XP and Gentoo. |
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> I'm curious to try out all this beryl stuff and see what all the rage is |
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> with Ubuntu and the kids these days. |
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> Can I install Ubuntu in yet another partition and have it share the /boot |
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> and swap ones I already have, or do I need dedicated ones for that distro |
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> too? |
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> (and I did try to get beryl working in Gentoo, but couldn't do it. Before I |
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> spend too much time messing with that, I figured I'd see if it was even |
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> worth it. Since I have nvidia card, I can't run the Ubuntu live CD and beryl |
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> as it needs to install the proprietary drivers. ) |
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> D.Vin |
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You should be able to share /boot and swap without any problems. Just |
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make sure you name the kernels something different or that each distro |
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is set up to use the same kernel version. |
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Some people share the /home too. I have read that can be tricky |
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though. May need the same or close to the same version of KDE for example. |
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Hope that helps. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) :-) |
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Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. |
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