Re: debian woody beside suse
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 07:15:35AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 05:18, Martin Wegmann wrote: Hello Debian user, I am planning to install Debian woody as second linux on my computer beside Suse 8.1. I would like to know if debian will recognize the spare 50 GB on my /home directory (in Suse) and create a partition by it own without infering with Suse or if it would be better to resize it and create a new partition for debian with YAST2. If the partitioning would be the better idea, which format do you recommend? If your /home is in a seperate partition, and your uid is the same on both machines, then I see nothing wrong w/ sharing /home between systems. It could cause issues though, if you have different versions of things on each side. F'r instance (I don't know if this is true or not), both GNOME 1.4 and GNOME 2 might use ~/.gnome/ for storing preferences; their config file format is *extremely* different though, so they could break each other quit badly... And the second concern I have is the configuration of the boot manager, will debian show up with suse linux as choice when starting up? If you tell it to, then yes. This'll be a little weird though, since both SuSe and Debian will have their own /etc/lilo.conf; you'll just have to pick one OS and let it handle the boot sector. -rob msg26124/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: debian woody beside suse
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: Hello Debian user, I am planning to install Debian woody as second linux on my computer beside Suse 8.1. I would like to know if debian will recognize the spare 50 GB on my /home directory (in Suse) and create a partition by it own without infering with Suse or if it would be better to resize it and create a new partition for debian with YAST2. If the partitioning would be the better idea, which format do you recommend? And the second concern I have is the configuration of the boot manager, will debian show up with suse linux as choice when starting up? thanks for your help, cheers Martin The Debian installer will not recognize that 50Gb on your /home partition. It will see that as a used partition. You need to resize it and create a new partition. You do not need to format the new partition. The installer will do that for you. When you install Debian, just choose the new partition that you create from that spare room on the /home partition and let it format it. It will also ask for a partition for swap - choose what you are using for SuSE. Debian will not show up automatically in the boot manager. What I usually do is fix this after the install. I ask the installer to *NOT* put LILO in the mbr. I make a boot floppy, of course. Then after the installation I go into the other system, SuSE here, and I mount the partition of the new installation and copy the things in /boot to the /boot of SuSE. Be sure that you name these things with something different than what you have in the SuSE /boot. I just copy vmlinuz and System.map. If you have initrd, you will need that too I think. Give them all the same ending like vmlinuz-debian-2.4.20. Put that same ending on System.map so that when it boots the correct one will be used. Then you have to edit /etc/lilo.conf and add a stanza for Debian. Then run /sbin/lilo to put it in the mbr and try booting. This is not the only way, it's just how I do it. Anita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian woody beside suse
On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 16:38, David Dumortier wrote: Hello get W$ and try !!! WordStar -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | Fear the Penguin!! | +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian woody beside suse
Martin Wegmann wrote: Hello Debian user, I am planning to install Debian woody as second linux on my computer beside Suse 8.1. I would like to know if debian will recognize the spare 50 GB on my /home directory (in Suse) and create a partition by it own without infering with Suse or if it would be better to resize it and create a new partition for debian with YAST2. If the partitioning would be the better idea, which format do you recommend? And the second concern I have is the configuration of the boot manager, will debian show up with suse linux as choice when starting up? I have five Linux systems sharing a common /home partition and swap partition without a problem. Just be sure that when you install Debian, you mount /home as 'previously installed' to avoid formatting and wiping out /home's data. You can treat swap as new and format it if you wish, just be sure to mount it. Treat Debian's / partition as a new one and do the format. Just be sure you choose Debian's / and not one that is already installed (your SUSE). Booting---I use grub only on the first Linux system I installed and avoided enabling the booters on the other systems. All systems (including Windows 98) are booted from this single grub. I'm not positive but I think you could use any one of the systems' grub, not necessarily the first one installed.---there might be a problem if you had more than one active booter, I'm quite sure. thanks for your help, cheers Martin __ Werden Sie kreativ! Jetzt HTML-Mails nicht nur schreiben - nein - GESTALTEN, bei WEB.DE FreeMail! http://freemail.web.de/features/?mc=021141 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian woody beside suse
On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 05:18, Martin Wegmann wrote: Hello Debian user, I am planning to install Debian woody as second linux on my computer beside Suse 8.1. I would like to know if debian will recognize the spare 50 GB on my /home directory (in Suse) and create a partition by it own without infering with Suse or if it would be better to resize it and create a new partition for debian with YAST2. If the partitioning would be the better idea, which format do you recommend? If your /home is in a seperate partition, and your uid is the same on both machines, then I see nothing wrong w/ sharing /home between systems. And the second concern I have is the configuration of the boot manager, will debian show up with suse linux as choice when starting up? -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | Fear the Penguin!! | +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian woody beside suse
Hello get W$ and try !!! David Dumortier One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
