On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 07:26:47PM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: <snip>
You're saying to create two of each. When I'm doing the install, can I tell it which partition to use for what? e.g;
yes
If I have a /usr partition, won't the new install see that, and won't it conflict with the /usr for the new installation? How do I keep them separate?
The new install will see the partition that contains your old /usr, but no it will not conflict. Because each install will hace a separate / mounted on different partitions, and each will have its own /etc/fstab, which i where the system gets its info of the partitions and mountpoints. Have a look at your current /etc/fstab, and you will notice entries like; jon@a13:~> cat /etc/fstab /dev/hda7 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda5 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda9 /data2 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 swap swap pri=42 0 0 -now on another / mounted on, say /dev/hdb7 there could be a different set, specifying other partitions to use for *that* system... In the above, the data* mountpoints are actually from an 8.0 install that I still have lingering on my machine. Just because a partition is mounted as /usr by one system doesn't mean anything to another system, until you tell it in that systems fstab... Hope that clears it up a little? Jon Clausen