If I wish to install more than one distros of linux, is it possible, safe and recommended to share a common swap partition among them to save my disk space?

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I have connected internet to opensuse with kinternet

But this time i m scared that it is updating its packages because the system monitor is showing rapidly increasing bytes recieved,
Now what to do and what to configure??
I have unchecked a few auto-updates but its not working.

The ping statistics for the first command---

PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=4.77 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=1.96 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=2.09 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128 time=2.36 ms
--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3012ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.965/2.796/4.770/1.149 ms

For the second command, it said unknown host.

This time i configured the DSL settings and selected > connect to the internet manually.
Now i m not finding the application to connect it.
:(
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I would like to ask one more question here.
A couple of days ago, my windows XP got corrupted so i formatted the C drive and reinstalled it.
At that time,I had installed ubuntu along with it which got lost and was overwritten by the windows setup.
Is there any way to install XP without affecting ubuntu in one way or other?
Or is it possible to retrieve ubuntu after installing windows?

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
03:01.0 Ethernet controller: Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Device 2031 (rev 01)
03:02.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
03:02.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:20:03:FF:8C
inet addr:192.168.1.2
Bcast:192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:20ff:fe03:ff8c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:62 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:11
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1568 (1.5 Kb) TX bytes:7997 (7.8 Kb)
Interrupt:21 Memory:dfdfff00-dfdfffff
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:62 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:62 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3500 (3.4 Kb) TX bytes:3500 (3.4 Kb)

The terminal is not recognizing any of these two commands. It says unknown commands.:ohmy:

I use a wired connection.

This time i searched google fir this purpose and i tried those methods which i applied to ubuntu but i got no solution.:(
I use DSL connection with dynamic ip addresses.

Now i m facing some more problems with the networking in ubuntu.
1.using the command terminal i get connected to internet but even then the nm-applet in the panel for network connections is showing "NO CONNECTION"
2.by network gets automatically disconnected while working on the internet. I need to again use the terminal to disconnect and reconnect it.when i disconnect it using the "poff" command,it interrupts saying that more than one are running. so then i use "poff -a".
i need help.
thanks in advance
:)

thank you
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