Chuck Anderson wrote:
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 06:06:35PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
I have to set up a machine as dual boot 32/64 bit and I would really love
to not waste space on swap partitions being duplicated if I don't have
to. That said, if I do two installs and use the same swap partition, what
evil will come of it?
No problems. I do it all the time when testing/switching between
different Fedora releases.
The only obvious issue I see is suspending the non-default kernel and
trying to boot the other (found that in FC6) and I can avoid that. Any
other know issues I have to avoid?
Yeah, you definately don't want to hibernate to swap on one OS and try
to boot the other. You'll just lose your hibernated system and leave
the filesystems in inconsistent state. In general it is very bad to
boot /anything/ other that the original hibernated kernel when after
you have hibernated. That's why grub doesn't show you a menu when you
boot up in a hibernated state.
_I_ don't think I'd like that. I _can_ hibernate Windows, run Linux,
then resume Windows. I've not hibernated Linux at all except
accidentally (FC3 I recalled resumed then shutdown, I lost interest then).
The object is to run one 64 bit program without reinstalling the whole
stable 32 bit environment.
Why not go all 64-bit? I've been using it, and have had zero issues
with 32/64 bit compatibility.
I've been running pure 64-bit Fedora and SL5 with no problems that
concerned me: I don't know what, if any, browser plugins work, and don't
really care. I don't like flash!
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Cheers
John
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