On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 18:25 -0400, David Niemi wrote:
Yes, generally a multi-version install has been covered just want to
know about re-using some of the partitions.
/dev/sdc2 7.6G 3.8G 3.5G 53% /
/dev/sdc1 145M 31M 107M 22% /boot
/dev/shm 1005M 0 1005M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdc7 9.7G 1.1G 8.1G 12% /home
/dev/sdc3 7.7G 2.5G 4.9G 34% /os2
/dev/sdc5 6.7G 938M 5.4G 15% /var
I've FC4 i386_x64 installed and for testing compilation would like to
install the regular i386 version. Reusing the swap partition should be
fine, install /boot onto the / partition instead of causing problems
with my main install. The /os2 partition is where I'm going to install
the other version.
Will it cause problems re-using /home and /var (probably problems with
the latter). I'll probably have to backup /home (cp -pR), install,
create user(s), login then out and then as root copy everything back.
Don't even think about sharing /var. Amongst the things in there are the
RPM database for the OS, which will be different for the two versions.
Sharing /home won't be a big issue if the UIDs and GIDs you use on the
two systems are the same for regular users.
Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul(a)city-fan.org>