[opensuse] Swap Partitions with two versions of openSUSE
This is my first time trying to install two versions of openSUSE. I have two seperate 320GB SATA drives. Also an unused 120GB ide drive. 4 GB memory, 3.4 MHZ P4 processor. I presently have openSUSE 10.2 installed on sdb1,2,3. I'm wanting to install openSUSE 11.0 on sdc1,2, 3. When I get into the installer and setup the partitions it still wants to use the swap partition on sdb1. How can I have separate swap partitions for each version or can I? Google showed a lot on partitions but nothing to help with the installer. A link to a how to would be great. Your help would be appreciated. Thanks -- Russ Linux register user 441463 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2008/01/27 12:12 (GMT-0800) Russ Fineman apparently typed:
This is my first time trying to install two versions of openSUSE. I have two seperate 320GB SATA drives. Also an unused 120GB ide drive. 4 GB memory, 3.4 MHZ P4 processor.
I presently have openSUSE 10.2 installed on sdb1,2,3. I'm wanting to install openSUSE 11.0 on sdc1,2, 3. When I get into the installer and setup the partitions it still wants to use the swap partition on sdb1. How can I have separate swap partitions for each version or can I?
Why do you want to? Except maybe if you suspend multiple distros instead of shutting down, I don't know any good reason to have more than one contiguous swapper.
Google showed a lot on partitions but nothing to help with the installer. A link to a how to would be great.
I have no idea whether it's possible to get the installer to not use swap partitions it finds, but when installation is done, simply edit /etc/fstab and remove the line that mounts the swapper you don't want it to use. -- "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." John 1:1 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 27 January 2008 12:29:50 pm Felix Miata wrote:
On 2008/01/27 12:12 (GMT-0800) Russ Fineman apparently typed:
This is my first time trying to install two versions of openSUSE. I have two seperate 320GB SATA drives. Also an unused 120GB ide drive. 4 GB memory, 3.4 MHZ P4 processor.
I presently have openSUSE 10.2 installed on sdb1,2,3. I'm wanting to install openSUSE 11.0 on sdc1,2, 3. When I get into the installer and setup the partitions it still wants to use the swap partition on sdb1. How can I have separate swap partitions for each version or can I?
Why do you want to? Except maybe if you suspend multiple distros instead of shutting down, I don't know any good reason to have more than one contiguous swapper.
Google showed a lot on partitions but nothing to help with the installer. A link to a how to would be great.
I have no idea whether it's possible to get the installer to not use swap partitions it finds, but when installation is done, simply edit /etc/fstab and remove the line that mounts the swapper you don't want it to use. -- "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." John 1:1 NIV
Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409
Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/
Thanks as was pointed out in another email I did not understand that both versions could use the one swap partition. I think it will be big enough, its 5GB and I only have 3.2GB of usable memory, 4GB total. -- Russ Linux register user 441463 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2008-01-27 at 15:29 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
partitions it still wants to use the swap partition on sdb1. How can I have separate swap partitions for each version or can I?
Why do you want to? Except maybe if you suspend multiple distros instead of shutting down,
That would be quite dangerous: if one system tries to open the other system filesystem, it will see it wasn't properly clossed and run an fsck on it. Worse, when you open again the first filesystem it expects a dirty filesystem with opened files, and finds thing changed, with very unexpected and bad results. I know, because it happened to me. The best thing is to use the same swap for all system.
I don't know any good reason to have more than one contiguous swapper.
If they are on different drives, then it is a good thing: access is faster. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHnSkAtTMYHG2NR9URAh9qAJwJVm5OKfqUMK2w/Ut0Qisepy8eQACfcb8o VwHZYvIZLmpjZ9/dwCeM0Bg= =+tsm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Russ Fineman wrote:
This is my first time trying to install two versions of openSUSE. I have two seperate 320GB SATA drives. Also an unused 120GB ide drive. 4 GB memory, 3.4 MHZ P4 processor.
I presently have openSUSE 10.2 installed on sdb1,2,3. I'm wanting to install openSUSE 11.0 on sdc1,2, 3. When I get into the installer and setup the partitions it still wants to use the swap partition on sdb1. How can I have separate swap partitions for each version or can I?
If you're only going to run one version at at time (no virtualization), there's NO NEED for seperate swap partitions.
Google showed a lot on partitions but nothing to help with the installer. A link to a how to would be great.
Simply make another partition, and designate it as swap. But all you're doing is robbing each installation of swap space.
Your help would be appreciated. Thanks
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On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Russ Fineman wrote:-
I presently have openSUSE 10.2 installed on sdb1,2,3. I'm wanting to install openSUSE 11.0 on sdc1,2, 3. When I get into the installer and setup the partitions it still wants to use the swap partition on sdb1. How can I have separate swap partitions for each version or can I?
An easy way would be to start up the pre-existing openSUSE 10.2 installation and then use suspend to disc to shut down. This changes the swap partition so that the kernel, and the installer, no longer recognises it as a valid swap and will use/create another one. I discovered this when trying to install the latest 11.0 alpha on a system that I'd forgotten I'd suspended. Until I rebooted the old installation and shut down properly, the installation system claimed that what was the swap partition wasn't a valid one and offered to delete one of my other partitions to create a new one. The good news is that sharing swaps won't do any harm, unless you manage to use suspend to disc in one installation and then reboot into the other. That would require a deliberate act to get round the present configuration, which should auto-start the suspended system on boot-up, and so all bets are off. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: http://www.distributed.net/ OGR-P2 @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~15Mkeys SUSE 10.1 32bit | openSUSE 10.2 32bit | openSUSE 10.3 32bit | openSUSE 11.0a0 SUSE 10.1 64bit | openSUSE 10.2 64bit | openSUSE 10.3 64bit RISC OS 3.6 | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 10.3 PPC |RISC OS 3.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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