On Monday 1 Dec 2003 4:03:13 AM EST (approx) X-Message-Number-for-archive: 169632 Message-Id: <200312010103.13696.brett@realbt.com> * "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
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