duel booting with 2x *nix

Bob D. bob_beyng553 at comcast.net
Thu Oct 28 12:53:10 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 13:16 +0100, Simon Burke wrote:
> I know duel booting is really easy to setup these days, but just a
> thought, I've never duel booted with two *nix OS's so i do not
> know this.
> 
> Is it possible to use a single swap partition for multiple distro's on
> one machine?

Yes.

> If so would it impair stability or stuff? And would it be possible to
> do so with BSD and linux?

No issues I've ever heard of regarding using a shared swap partition.
Not positive regarding BSD & Linux sharing, but my inclination is that
it would be fine.


Bob





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