On Sunday 27 January 2008 12:29:50 pm Felix Miata wrote: > On 2008/01/27 12:12 (GMT-0800) Russ Fineman apparently typed: > > This is my first time trying to install two versions of openSUSE. I have > > two seperate 320GB SATA drives. Also an unused 120GB ide drive. 4 GB > > memory, 3.4 MHZ P4 processor. > > > > I presently have openSUSE 10.2 installed on sdb1,2,3. I'm wanting to > > install openSUSE 11.0 on sdc1,2, 3. When I get into the installer and > > setup the partitions it still wants to use the swap partition on sdb1. > > How can I have separate swap partitions for each version or can I? > > Why do you want to? Except maybe if you suspend multiple distros instead of > shutting down, I don't know any good reason to have more than one > contiguous swapper. > > > Google showed a lot on partitions but nothing to help with the installer. > > A link to a how to would be great. > > I have no idea whether it's possible to get the installer to not use swap > partitions it finds, but when installation is done, simply edit /etc/fstab > and remove the line that mounts the swapper you don't want it to use. > -- > "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was > with God, and the Word was God." John 1:1 NIV > > Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 > > Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/
Thanks as was pointed out in another email I did not understand that both versions could use the one swap partition. I think it will be big enough, its 5GB and I only have 3.2GB of usable memory, 4GB total. -- Russ Linux register user 441463 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
