Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Andy Goss <aegoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 10:39 +0200, Koenraad Lelong wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm going to re-install a Linux-machine (my home-server). This time I 
> would like to be able to install e.g. a next vesion of Suse but keep the 
> old one available (with maybe a third OS, no Win though). This time I'm 
> going to put in a new disk and keep the old one to be able to switch 
> back until all is OK. But in the future it will be 1 disk.
> I have a few questions regarding this all.
> Is there a how-to somewhere I can follow ?
> What's a good partitioning scheme ?
> swap (of course)
> /boot ? size ?
> /
> /home
> others ?
> Is Suse (10.0 and 10.1) able to modify Grub automatically or will I have 
> to edit the menu manually ?
> Any other comments ?
> Thanks for any input.
> -- 
> Met vriendelijke groeten,
> Koenraad Lelong

Great GRUB and multi-booting resources:

* http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/blog/saikee
* A grub menu booting 100+ systems of Dos, Windows, Linux, BSD and
Solaris: http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=143973
* Just booting tips:
http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=144294
* Saikee's grub booting tips:
http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?p=837905#post837905

Andy Goss





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