[Digikam-users] Some linux questions

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Op 28-09-11 09:55, todd rme schreef:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Gilles Caulier
> <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> 2011/9/28 Paul Verizzo<paulv at paulv.net>:
>>> I know this isn't about digiKam, but the fact is that I look on the folks in
>>> this list serve as being good, intelligent sources on linux matters.
>>>   Instead of posting to some generic Linux site and getting all kinds of
>>> answers from idiotic to disdaining and occasionally helpful, I'd like to ask
>>> your thoughts on the following questions.  Please respond back channel paulv
>>> (you know what) paulv.net
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> The questions are,
>>>
>>> 1.  If I have a hard drive with a working linux distro on it, and I want the
>>> hd to have other distros in addition, do I need to have separate partitions
>>> for each distro?  What about the swap partition?
>> yes, using a partition for each / of distro is the best way. You can
>> share /home, /tmp, swap, etc between distro.
>>
>> To try other distro, why not to use VirtualBox ?

>> Gilles Caulier
Currently running in my VB on Ubuntu: 4 distros and windows xp.
Next thing todo is trying to get the big canon printer to work. but time....
Rinus
> Or a livecd.
>
> -Todd
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