Re: Updating SuSE 8.0 to 8.1, 8.2, and 9.0

From: Dale R. Pischke (drpischke_at_cox.net)
Date: 03/09/04 

Date: 9 Mar 2004 10:36:13 -0800

Kevin, I like the way you setup your system, sounds like a very good
plan.

Is it fairly easy to partition the way you did, when doing a brand new
installation? Is it easy to place the /home directories on the other
partition?

I assume your /usr and /etc directories are on hda and hdd? Would most
of the applications that you download and install go on hda and/or hdd
(requiring re-install if you load a newer version of Linux?

Thanks,

Dale

Kevin Nathan <knathan@project54.com> wrote in message news:<20040308123451.1915598e@allevil.local>...
> On 8 Mar 2004 10:05:03 -0800
> drpischke@cox.net (Dale R. Pischke) wrote:
>
> > I, like many others, have invested a lot of time getting my SuSE 8.0
> > configured in a state that I like (i.e. printer, sound, cd-burner,
> > OpenOffice with nice fonts, DVD player, etc.). I am fearful that
> > upgrade attempts might make my system unusable.
>
> That's one reason why I do a three drive setup: hda is SUSE 7.3 right
> now, hdc is /home and swap, and hdd is SUSE 8.2 (with room for several
> other distros for testing). When I upgrade next time, 7.3 will go away
> to make room for the new one, 8.2 will still be there just in case, and
> my /home partition is common between both of them. I rename dirs under
> /home that I think might be a problem (like .kde to .kde8.2) and then
> copy the old data over as necessary. I also copy the entire /home tree
> to a free area on the last version's disk, for secondary backup.

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