Anshul wrote:
I think I was a bit unclear about the question. What I meant was to attempt an updated install of the original installation, keeping the original installation intact. We can always do a fresh install at another partition without disturbing the original in FC or any other distro. This is never a problem. A copy of the original install must be made for updating.Yes, with many a distro. (Slackware for example) that would be a trivial task. I have done it many a times. And this is what I dont like about Fedora/Redhat. They customize/automate everything so much that you are no longer the one in total control. I guess that comes free with all that "ease"!
Anyhow, here is a slightly risky way to do it. Run cfdisk / fdisk and note the partition table. Now relabel your Linux partition /dev/hdai to something other than '/'. Now during the partion part of the FC install, ask for the manual option. Make sure, FC is not formatting /dev/hdai. Ask it to format and use /dev/hdaj instead. Go ahead with the install. Go for Lilo. Complete the install. Reconfigure Lilo, and life should be fine! Its a bit risky, though!
It cannot be done by changing labels, unless fstab is totally by labels...but there will be lot of problems in the approach.
A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc.
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