Re: [SLE] Linux multiboot questions

On Monday 19 June 2006 11:39, Koenraad Lelong wrote:
Hi,
I'm going to re-install a Linux-machine (my home-server). This time I
would like to be able to install e.g. a next vesion of Suse but keep the
old one available (with maybe a third OS, no Win though). This time I'm
going to put in a new disk and keep the old one to be able to switch
back until all is OK. But in the future it will be 1 disk.
I have a few questions regarding this all.
Is there a how-to somewhere I can follow ?
What's a good partitioning scheme ?
swap (of course)
/boot ? size ?
/boot is not really necessary

/
/home

others ?
No.

Keep It Small and Simple. The default (20 GB for /, rest for /home) is fine.

I have only two partitions: swap and /. I could have just one, and swap in a
file.

Is Suse (10.0 and 10.1) able to modify Grub automatically or will I have
to edit the menu manually ?

The installer should make a working /boot/grub/menu.lst

There might be some problems with MBR, PBR, active partition etc in a more
complicated setup, but this is easily fixable. No need to worry beforehand,
because chances are very good that everything will just work. Ask here if
your system doesn't boot (don't get scared by that, nothing is lost).


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