-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-08-24 at 13:51 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2007/08/24 15:18 (GMT0200) Andreas Jaeger apparently typed:
"Carlos E. R."
writes: Question: Can 10.2 coexist in the same PC with 10.3 beta? Regarding this problem, I mean.
It should - Hannes, can you comment?
Dunno why Carlos should ask. I have 4-5 systems with both Factory and 10.2, 10.1 and/or 10.0, along with several other distros, and windoz, and OS/2, and DOS, and more than 15 partitions per PATA HD, each. As long as partition tables remain standard, no OS depends on how any other is configured.
I ask because I don't know and I'm afraid to try. I have no idea what will happen to a disk with 18 partitions when the system does not see the last two. Will it think that is empty space? Are scsi partitions defined differently, assigning a nibble (4 bits) to the partition number, and so when it finds a partition table needing a byte will everything in the table be pushed over another 4 bits? Because the only reason I can think of limiting to 16 items is because a record somewhere is limited to 4 bits. Will it overwrite the grub code with references to sda somehow, so that later my main system wanting to use hda will fail? Notice that the same grub instance will have to boot both 10.2 and 10.3 (or rather, the grub in the mbr will have to start another mbr for the other system). Ie, a 10.2 grub in the mbr will start one of two other grubs in different boot partitions, each starting 10.2 (main) or 10.3 (beta). You see, I'm completely ignorant on this issue, and because I'm ignorant I'm afraid. Just the same as a village in my country have rejected the installation of a new cellular phone aerial because they think it is dangerous and "radioactive" (and thus, they have no phone service at all). Ignorance breeds fear. and I'm afraid about this new scsi issue. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD4DBQFGzyd/tTMYHG2NR9URAtkbAJoD/RkP2CWQtvqgPfl+ID3YC9xQ9ACYscsA 0FujTeP3mMSaz7saJ0/a9g== =jUb2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org