Re: How destructive is upgrade?

[Chester <chester@langin.com>]

Thanks, I think this is the way that I will go.  I'm 
backing up and should start installing SuSE in the next
day or so.  This seems to be a lot more fun way to do it
then to just replace one with the other.

--Chester Langin-------------------------------------------
<http://www.cs.siu.edu/~langin>  <mailto:langin@cs.siu.edu>
---------------------------------Mysterious contradiction--

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 medmanks@earthlink.net wrote:

> "Flood Randy Capt AFCA/TCAA" <randy.flood@scott.af.mil> wrote:
> > 
> > I thought your goal was to do this at the least risk of causing
> > problems...
> > 
> > I'm sure that it can be done.  However, you are going to have to
> > carefully consider your layout of partitions.  For example, Red Hat's
> > /etc/fstab uses labels now to determine the correct partition.  I
> > don't
> > know how SUSE works.  If SUSE's installer decides to label it's
> > partitions you could have some problems...     
> 
> I have 3 distros, plus winders on 2 HD.  SuSE will automatically pick up
> existing partitions just fine.  All 3 distros I have, utilize the same
> swap without problems. In SuSE, just set the swap (upon installing it)
> to the existing swap space. I would not share other partitions (other
> then FAT32) with each distro. 
> 
> Gary
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chester [mailto:chester@langin.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 6:19 PM
> > To: silug-discuss@silug.org
> > Subject: Re: How destructive is upgrade?
> > 
> > 
> > I have had another idea.  Since I have enough disk space,
> > and I already have SuSE 7.1, I could make some new 
> > partitions just for SuSE and have Windows/Red Hat/SuSE.
> > Then, I could gradually phase in SuSE and phase out RH.
> > I wonder if they would both use the same swap partition.
> > I wonder if they could share other partitions.
> 
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