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From: PaulRS on 19 Jan 2008 23:18
I have installed 10.3 on a 250GB Drive, but I also want a "play"
installation as I have more than enough room. I put GRUB on the MBR
and also have a DOS partition. The GRUB bootloader has on it's menu:
OpenSuse 10.3
DOS
Floppy
Failsafe

My question: Can I run 10.3 YAST install again and set new / (root)
and /home partitions and have a separate installation by not mounting
the / root and /home of the original installation? Will this second
installation show up in GRUB (renamed of course)? If not, what do
you suggest.

Paul
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From: Nikos Chantziaras on 19 Jan 2008 23:29
PaulRS wrote:
> I have installed 10.3 on a 250GB Drive, but I also want a "play"
> installation as I have more than enough room. I put GRUB on the MBR
> and also have a DOS partition. The GRUB bootloader has on it's menu:
> OpenSuse 10.3
> DOS
> Floppy
> Failsafe
>
> My question: Can I run 10.3 YAST install again and set new / (root)
> and /home partitions and have a separate installation by not mounting
> the / root and /home of the original installation? Will this second
> installation show up in GRUB (renamed of course)? If not, what do
> you suggest.

It should work OK. The only partition you can share between both is the
swap partition. I'm not sure if suspend-to-disk can interfere here; if
you're paranoid, don't share swap.
From: David Bolt on 20 Jan 2008 00:01
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:-

<snip>

>It should work OK. The only partition you can share between both is
>the swap partition. I'm not sure if suspend-to-disk can interfere
>here; if you're paranoid, don't share swap.

You can share swap partitions between different OSes as, if you use
suspend to disc, Grub auto-starts and resumes the suspended OS. The only
time this could be a problem is when using a live CD that uses swap
partitions on a hard drive where there is then the chance that it will
break things and the resume then won't work.


Regards,
David Bolt

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From: houghi on 20 Jan 2008 04:10
PaulRS wrote:
> I have installed 10.3 on a 250GB Drive, but I also want a "play"
> installation as I have more than enough room. I put GRUB on the MBR
> and also have a DOS partition. The GRUB bootloader has on it's menu:
> OpenSuse 10.3
> DOS
> Floppy
> Failsafe
>
> My question: Can I run 10.3 YAST install again and set new / (root)
> and /home partitions and have a separate installation by not mounting
> the / root and /home of the original installation? Will this second
> installation show up in GRUB (renamed of course)? If not, what do
> you suggest.

Yes. No problem with that. What I would do is either use a seperate /,
the same swap as others have already mentioned and also the same /home,
perhaps with a different user. Or make just one / with no seperate
/home.

Or you can do something with VMware or Parallels and run 10.3 from
within 10.3

houghi
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To make records with a mobile But some stupid with a flare gun
We didn't have much time Burned the place to the ground
From: Darklight on 20 Jan 2008 04:41
PaulRS wrote:

> I have installed 10.3 on a 250GB Drive, but I also want a "play"
> installation as I have more than enough room. I put GRUB on the MBR
> and also have a DOS partition. The GRUB bootloader has on it's menu:
> OpenSuse 10.3
> DOS
> Floppy
> Failsafe
>
> My question: Can I run 10.3 YAST install again and set new / (root)
> and /home partitions and have a separate installation by not mounting
> the / root and /home of the original installation? Will this second
> installation show up in GRUB (renamed of course)? If not, what do
> you suggest.
>
> Paul
> --

the answer to your question is yes you can install the same os twice just
install them on a different partition. but in the grub menu name them
differently.

i am about to do the same thing now that i know what i am doing.
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