On Monday 31 May 2004 09:02 am, Lucky Leavell wrote:

I am currently running 9.0 and would like to install 9.1 on a partition now occupied by SCO Linux 4 (no comments please!)

No comment.

9.0 is currently installed on /dev/sda5 I want to install 9.1 on /dev/sda3

but retain the ability to boot/access 9.0.

How do I go about this?

I don't remember the exact steps, but it should be fairly obvious during the install process. Pay attention to the partitioning choices. -- Robert C. Paulsen, Jr. robert@paulsenonline.net

Lucky Leavell wrote:

I am currently running 9.0 and would like to install 9.1 on a partition now occupied by SCO Linux 4 (no comments please!)

9.0 is currently installed on /dev/sda5 I want to install 9.1 on /dev/sda3

but retain the ability to boot/access 9.0.

How do I go about this?

Thank you, Lucky Leavell

I'm just a newbie to Linux, but this method has worked for me. More experienced users may have a better method or two to suggest. Home system with PII 450, 768 Mb RAM, 2 120Gb HDD (IDE), plus various removable media drives. First hard drive is partitioned into 4 primary partitions, but you could use primary plus extended if you prefer - hda1: 2Gb Swap partition - hda2: 35Gb reiserfs with SuSE 8.2 installed - hda3: 35Gb reiserfs with SuSE 9.0 installed - hda4: ~40Gb free space (for 9.1 ... it's only on my work machine now) Second hard drive is one 120Gb reiserfs partition mounted as /home for both installs - User accounts created as <user82>, <user90>, and soon to be <user91> so I don't munge the config files for the respective installs I've used YaST to partition as I go along. I haven't had problems with this yet, but if you want to partition prior to the first install, so be it. Step 1: Install SuSE 8.2 in it's own partition and create swap file partition using the custom partitioning selection during the install ... thus, my drives hda1 and hda2. Here's the catch: create (mount) /home in another partition (mine is on another disk). Change the recommended partitioning by clicking on "Partitioning" and use the screen choice "Base install on suggested setup" or something to that effect. Use the custom partitioning display screen to ensure /home is mounted on it's own partition, not in the partition with /, /dev, /etc, etc. Step 1a: Install and configure SuSE 8.2 to your satisfaction. Step 2: Install SuSE 9.0 by choosing to modify the recommended partitioning as you did with SuSE 8.2. Ask to modify the partitioning as above. Slice out the desired hard drive space on your "OS drive" for everything but /swap and /home (you could choose to install over the SCO partition in /dev/sda3.) The partitioner should use your existing swap file for the SuSE 9.0 install ... no need to re-format that. Make sure you choose the partition you made for /home in the SuSE 8.2 install as /home here as well. Step 2a: Install and configure 9.0 as you please. Ensure you choose a different login ID for this install ... I just about fragged my SuSE 8.2 account by using the same ID. Maybe some of the more experience users can tell you if there is a way to use the same ID for multiple installs. I just didn't take the chance. Step 3: Repeat Step 2 using SuSE 9.1. At the end of the last install, you can play around with the default boot order and the like to boot to which ever distro is your preferred environment. NOTE: I'm recalling this from memory, so be careful with these instructions ... they may be incomplete/incorrect in places. Hope this helps. Regards - Scott _______________________________________ Scott Nemmers E-mail: nemmerss_penmaster_com _______________________________________