I am preparing to migrate from Mandrake to Suse. Initially, I intend to run Suse on a small partition in parallel to "production" Mandrake and a w2k partition, using lilo dual boot. That works fine between different versions of Mandrake if I create corresponding entries in /etc/lilo.conf and putting symbolic links between the partitions in /boot (/boot/vmlinuz and /boot/initrd.img). I guess for Suse something similar will be possible, so that I can switch between Mandrake and Suse partitions at boot. A simple secondary consideration: preparing this "action" I tried to have a look at the Suse Linux mailing list, but had problems to do intelligent searches. I ended up using Goggle "Advanced Search" with "Suse Linux English Discussion" for "exact phrase" in addition to the search topic. Questions: - Does anybody have positive/negative experience with this kind of dual boot between Linux flavours? - Is there a more straightforward to search method for Suse lists than the round-about Advanced Google Search?
Juergen Harms - Desktop wrote:
- Does anybody have positive/negative experience with this kind of dual boot between Linux flavours?
Generally no problem. I have one box with W2K, OS/2, PC-DOS, Mandrake 7.1, RedHat 7.3, Corel 1.1 and SuSE 8.2. I don't have any boxes sharing current versions of Mandrake & SuSE. I have a SuSE 9.0 sharing with WinXP, and a SuSE 8.1 sharing with W98, OS/2 and Fedora Core 1. I haven't used Lilo in years. Grub is the default bootloader in SuSE, as well as other current distros. -- "Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity." Colossians 4:5 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
One thing to bear in mind is that Suse appears to start User IDs from 500 whereas Mandrake starts from 501. So if you use the installation wizard to create the same users you have on Mandrake, bear that in mind otherwise they'll be assigned different IDs from the ones Mandrake uses. Obviously an issue if you intend sharing the /home area between Mandrake & Suse. Martin Farmilo On Friday 28 May 2004 21:14, Juergen Harms - Desktop wrote:
I am preparing to migrate from Mandrake to Suse. Initially, I intend to run Suse on a small partition in parallel to "production" Mandrake and a w2k partition, using lilo dual boot.
That works fine between different versions of Mandrake if I create corresponding entries in /etc/lilo.conf and putting symbolic links between the partitions in /boot (/boot/vmlinuz and /boot/initrd.img). I guess for Suse something similar will be possible, so that I can switch between Mandrake and Suse partitions at boot.
A simple secondary consideration: preparing this "action" I tried to have a look at the Suse Linux mailing list, but had problems to do intelligent searches. I ended up using Goggle "Advanced Search" with "Suse Linux English Discussion" for "exact phrase" in addition to the search topic.
Questions:
- Does anybody have positive/negative experience with this kind of dual boot between Linux flavours?
- Is there a more straightforward to search method for Suse lists than the round-about Advanced Google Search?
-----Original Message----- From: Martin Farmilo <martin@pcdoctor-home.biz> To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 09:28:04 +0100 Subject: Re: [SLE] Migrating from Mandrake to Suse
One thing to bear in mind is that Suse appears to start User IDs from 500 whereas Mandrake starts from 501. So if you use the installation wizard to create the same users you have on Mandrake, bear that in mind otherwise they'll be assigned different IDs from the ones Mandrake uses. Obviously an issue if you intend sharing the /home area between Mandrake & Suse.
Martin Farmilo
Starting with SuSE 9.1 the numbering starts at 1000. Ken
On Sunday 30 May 2004 9:28 am, Martin Farmilo wrote:
One thing to bear in mind is that Suse appears to start User IDs from 500 whereas Mandrake starts from 501. So if you use the installation wizard to create the same users you have on Mandrake, bear that in mind otherwise they'll be assigned different IDs from the ones Mandrake uses. Obviously an issue if you intend sharing the /home area between Mandrake & Suse.
This behaviour can be changed, I think. Look at file:/etc/login.defs: # # Min/max values for automatic uid selection in useradd # # SYSTEM_UID_MIN to SYSTEM_UID_MAX inclusive is the range for # UIDs for dynamically allocated administrative and system accounts. # UID_MIN to UID_MAX inclusive is the range of UIDs of dynamically # allocated user accounts. # SYSTEM_UID_MIN 100 SYSTEM_UID_MAX 499 UID_MIN 500 UID_MAX 60000 I have never tried it... but I remember from my days with Solaris years ago that there was a file which set this sort of stuff, so I looked for an equivalent in SUSE. Whether there is any knock on effects, or something else gets missed, I don't know. hth Vince Littler
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