[LBo] How to make a bunch of flavours of unix

[Billy Pollifrone]

Stefan Waidele wrote:
> Hi Ali,
> =

> You will probably need a seperate /boot partition.

This isn't necessary. The grub is just in one of the partitions
containing a distro.

> Don't fragment the installs into several partitions (/usr, /home/etc,
> ...) That would make a complete mess.
>
> Make one big partition for data-exchange which you can mount in each
> distribution.
>

/home is also a candidate for a shared partition. There could be issues
of configuration files being newer or older than a version for a
particular program, but most should be able to handle that issue. I
haven't ran into any yet anyway.

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