Re: How destructive is upgrade?

[medmanks@earthlink.net]

"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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