Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3983 mails)

[GarUlbricht7@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Monday 1 Dec 2003 4:03:13 AM EST (approx)
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Message-Id: <200312010103.13696.brett@xxxxxxxxxx>

* "Brett A. Taylor" wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm currently running Mandrake 9.1 
> but I want to switch to SUSE. I have 3 partitions 
> on my current hard drive: my main partition (hda1), 
> mounted at / as ext3; 
> swap (hda5); and hda6, which is mounted as /home. 
>
> I have downloaded SUSE and it exists on hda6.
>
> What I want to do is format the Mandrake partition on hda1, 
> but *keep* (this is the most important part) without loosing 
> *any* data on hda6, and set SUSE to mount it as /home.
>
> Is this going to work?

Brett, if I understand what you are asking, the simple answer is:
   No,
because each linux Operating System (OS) needs its own "/home"
but you could make it work depending on how you re-partioned
your hard-drive. (I am assuming you want to keep your Mandrake OS,
if for no other reason to aid in your install of SuSE) 

My suggestion to you is get a copy of the SuSE CD's
and manuals and read up on partititioning.

Unless I am confusing you with some one else you are a computer 
science student so you should learn about partitions.
(If you are short of funds, borrow a copy, or find a old
copy on ebay or buy the personal edition.)

Hope this helps,
bood luck.

Gar

(PS -- I had eliminated your message from my mailing list, when 
I saw it in the archieves, so I used the "get command" and got
another copy -- I would have trimed the following off -- 
but I left it on for completeness )

> I don't really understand how Linux partitions work very well -- 
> but part of what I'm most concerned about is how SUSE 
> is going to tie together the existing owners/groups on the hda6 
> partition with new users created by SUSE.
> thanks!
>
>
> Brett
>

-- 
     In the Beginning was the Command Line 
                       ---Neal Stephenson 


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