(what does hth stand for?) okay ...a little confuzzzed
/etc is left alone ...but still changes particular settings? now that I have "upgraded" * as I'd expect the 7.3 boot images etc to still be around (or am I dreaming?) * was to simply put the entries of 7.3 book image back into grub and see what custard is spewed If I had to do things again (which I just might as VMWare looks unhappy) - I think I'd "install" rather than upgrade ...and see if that the new version goes "ontop of" (or "beside") the old rather than eating the old. * doing an upgrade I'd say it has essentally removed the old, and upgraded it with the new -- theres no option to boot back into old and have both :( I recall in a prevous move still having the old I could still use, its why I asked the question about the differences -- would anyone care to confirm my findings? Multi-distro system ------------------- Now correct me if I'm wrong: so what your saying is: they could all use grub, booting from the /boot bootable partition /dev/hda1 grub would diect it to the specific root for the distro eg kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda2 ... or kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda3 or kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda4 redhat / would mount on /dev/hda2 mandrake / would mount on /dev/hd3 debian / would mounton /dev/hd4 in each distros partition would be etc; lib; usr; bin; sbin; var seperate and thus shared could be: home on /dev/hda5 tmp; (what else?) ...swap I guess what I'm tring to say, is what can I share? Admin ------ I guess having each seperate would mean I'd have to maintain each app over each distro (ie Mozilla on RH; Mandrake AND debian ...no? or the major differences between the distro's in the kernel, and /usr/bin/MyApp still the same and thus can be shared (with a common /etc/??) Installing ------- I don't recall seeing during the install process the option to create a new root to install if one already exists * I'm guessing install -> move the distro off root -> install the next (it will want to be put onto root) >-< setup grub to boot the new root ...and Bobs-your-uncle!! Keith McGavin wrote: > 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. <<snip>> > hth, > keith. -- Tutor Assistant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Dept. of Computer Science University of Canterbury Phone: +64 3 366-7001 ext: 7871 Office: 323 [ http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~marcus/index.html ]
