duel booting with 2x *nix

[Brian Bobowski]

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?
>
>If so would it impair stability or stuff? And would it be possible to
>do so with BSD and linux?
>
>Im just curious. All my Ix86 dekstops have atleast 160gb HDD space
>(over 1.5Tb in total at present), so i may give it a try later on
>tonight.
> 
>  
>
I don't THINK it'd work between FreeBSD and Linux, but I could be mistaken.

I'm basing this thought on the fact that every distro of Linux I've 
installed puts its different mount points on a different partition; 
FreeBSD has several partitions(not the same kind) on the same 
slice(FreeBSD's equivalent to a partition).

I don't have any experience with other *nixes, so I'll now yield the floor.

-BB