Togan Muftuoglu wrote:

* Colburn; on 20 Dec, 2003 wrote:

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Has anyone run the the New Install option of SuSE 9 Pro on top of an existing RedHat 9 install without harm to RH9? I had understood that to be so but the YaST text suggests otherwise. use the expert setting and do your own setup

To be clear, I would do this in order to prevent overwriting my /home? I can burn the contents of /home and sub-folders to a CD but suspect there is more to defending my RH9 install than that. What else would I need to map around to prevent harm to the RH9 install? Without some guidance I'd be guessing and will inevitably whack something I didn't intend to destroy. Thanks! doc

On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 10:40:15AM -0500, Colburn wrote:

Togan Muftuoglu wrote:

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* Colburn; on 20 Dec, 2003 wrote:

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Has anyone run the the New Install option of SuSE 9 Pro on top of an existing RedHat 9 install without harm to RH9? I had understood that to be so but the YaST text suggests otherwise. use the expert setting and do your own setup

To be clear, I would do this in order to prevent overwriting my /home? I can burn the contents of /home and sub-folders to a CD but suspect there is more to defending my RH9 install than that.

SUSE installs where you tell it to. So basically what you need is a separate partition to put it on. In the 'expert' section of the partitioning setup, you can point SUSE to whatever partition you have available for it, and tell YaST that that is going to be /. Also, since you already (probably) have a swap partition for RH, you may as well let SUSE use that as well. Other than that it works like this: If /home is a separate partition, you just need to not tell YaST to use it, and it will 'leave it alone' in the sense that YaST will set up mount points for it, and for the partition containing your RH. These will be known in SUSE as /data1, /data2 a.s.o. giving you access to your files. If /home is *not* a separate partition, it's even simpler. Because you're going to have SUSE on a separate partition, the /home of your RH will be part of the space that won't be touched anyway. One good reason to *not* have a 'shared' /home, is that the different versions of the apps will overwrite the .files ...which could lead to *some* frustration.

What else would I need to map around to prevent harm to the RH9 install? Without some guidance I'd be guessing and will inevitably whack something I didn't intend to destroy.

There is the issue of the bootloader. Probably SUSE will want to install grub. IINM it will see your RH, and make a menu-item for it, so that you'll have a choice during boot. If I were you, I'd probably have YaST put grub on a floppy instead of in the mbr. At least at first. That would give you a chance to verify that grub is indeed working as intended, letting you boot RH from there. You can always put grub on the harddisk later. Alternatively you can keep whatever bootloader you already have, and modify it to boot SUSE as well as RH. Other than that I can't of anything...

Thanks! doc

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