On Friday 16 March 2007 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My current distribution is Fedora Core 3. Being timid, I've avoided > trying to update it, but have now reached the stage where I accept that > I must. > > I've got three hard drives on my system; the original internal one, that > came with Windows on it (hda); another internal one I added, with FC3 on > it (hdb); and an external USB one, formatted in vfat and usable by > either OS (usbhd). > > Hdb has only three partitions, /boot, / and swap. > > My plan is to resize /, create two new /boot and / partitions in the > now-free space and then add FC6 to them, keeping FC3 just in case I need > it. [snip] Leslie you've got a mess.
As posted, I'd re-install, but ... Make a copy of /etc If you use *sql make a backup (mysqldump whatever) If you have anything in /var backup eg dns stuff, vmware stuff If you have www stuff back it up (I think FC3 used /var/www) If you have /usr/local stuff backup Now re-install FC6 10G / 1G swap rest /home IMHO if your MB is so old that you need a /boot use the wheelie bin IMHO I'd add a second 10G partition for some other OS in the future (FC7 ?) Now: you can reinstall the OS without trashing /home you can also install another try-n-see on the other 10G partition 10G / 1G swap will serve all your forseeable needs or you WILL be aware that they don't and can plan. Enjoy, play, have fun, but don't paint yourself into a cramped corner and finally, with no hair left, it works and you never dare touch it again :-) BTW for most W-stuff vmware works really well, not applicable if you use the borg to entertain you. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
