Hi,
the Redhat upgrade is ok and will leave /home and /etc
alone but it does pay to backup the files in /etc as any
particular setting unique to a 7.3 prog version can be altered.
Easy to back up /etc as it is only 6 meg.
Can't help you with grub but in lilo it is possible to boot
old and new kernel images.
man lilo and lilo,kernel howtos have info.
Running several distro's and having each use the same /home partition
is easy. Set each /etc/passwd and /etc/group to be identical in each
install so that each can access the user on the /home partition no
prob. example-
passwd- don:x:500:500::/home/don:/bin/bash
group- don:x:500:
chown- 'chown -R don:don /home/don'
I strongly advise that you do not store any personal or valuable
stuff on an extended partition. When a hardrive has superblock
problems it is a lot harder to repair extended partitions.
Put swap partition last for flexibility, putting it in the middle
just makes a mess of things. Assign partitions in units of hundreds
so they are easy to remember.
If you have an old hardrive on /dev/hdb1 you can use that for backup
of /home.
Example:
/dev/hda1 OS/2 Warp4 800meg
/dev/hda2 / 3 gig
/dev/hda3 /home 2 gig
/dev/hda5 slackware partition
/dev/hda6 debian partition
/dev/hda7 gentoo partion
/dev/hda8 swap
hth,
keith.
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Marcus Liddle wrote:
> q)
> whats the difference between an install
> and an upgrade??
>
> currently running rh 7.3; have rh 8.0 install set
>
> upgrade seems to blow away any prevous kernel versions
> in the grub menu on startup
>
> a) I waz woundering if by doing an install, I would have
> kept the prevous boot options?
>
> I have apps such as VMWare which prevously have been
> very very picky about what kernel they play in the
> sandpit with [:(] ...thus have been caught out in prevous
> upgrades by being forced to upgrade all
>
> b) I see there's 7.3 compatablity libraries; is it
> possible to run both 7.3 & 8.0 with ease?
>
> c) also, as a on-the-side question - how hard is it to
> run a few distro's together? ie say... Mandrake / RedHat
> & Debian (maybe).
>
> I'd imagine careful planning of partitions would be required,
> but all-in-all very possible ...no?
> (have large HD capacity & want to play)
>
> cheers
> Marcus
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