On Tuesday 02 December 2003 9:24 am, GarUlbricht7@netscape.net wrote:
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,
Strange?? I do it all the time with my SuSE distros. I update my system by formating and installing in the other partitions but don't format my home partition and thereby keep all my personal data in tact. Is there something unique about the Mandrake fs, that I don't know about? My simply answer is: Yes, it should work.
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)
Errr . . . if you read above doesn't Brett say that he wants to format his Mandrake OS?
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.
Unless you know him personally and know he has a problem, what has he being a computer science student got to do with anything. Surely if anyone is going to mess about with their partitions they should learn something about them first. Please try not to sound condescending and just try and help people if trying to help is your intention. Eddie
(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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