On Sunday 19 June 2005 13:21, Jim Cornette wrote: > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > Just downloaded FC4, and am willing to try it. However, because I see > > there are a lot of issues with virtual consoles, nvidia, vmware > > etc., that are important to me, I am not willing to give up my stable > > (and heavilly tweaked) FC2 system. > > > > The setup: I have four partitions: /, /secondroot, /home and swap. > > /secondroot is empty (I once planned to use it to build LFS, but > > never had the time to do it...), and I would like to do a clean FC4 > > install on it (so for FC4 that would be /, and FC2 / would be mounted > > somewhere inside or not at all). > > > > The questions: 1) I want /home to be used with both FC2 and FC4. I > > know nothing about selinux, but have read (on this list) that it does > > some "autorelabeling" or whatever. Is selinux going to make any > > physical change to the filesystem (ext3) on /home that would render > > it unusable under FC2 afterwards? (this is very important, because > > /home is 63 GB full, and I am not willing to lose all that data). > > Between FC2 and FC4 there are changes that could impact the config files > for different applications using two different versions using the same > home. I would think more as to keeping the versions seperate. > > > 2) How to setup GRUB? Currently it is in the MBR on /dev/hda, with > > two stable kernels. Should I let FC4 installation to modify that or > > should I choose "do not install GRUB" and modify it manually after > > installation? > > There is a selection called advanced bootloader options during the > installation process. If you select from the pulldown menu to install > the bootloader in partitions or /mbr locations of drives, grub should > install in this partition. I use the /boot partition for all but the > controlling installation in their respective partitions. I have a > development, FC3 and an FC4 booting this way off of two disks and they > work . > > Say that you select the advanced boot loader options and install the FC4 > grub onto /dev/hdb1 which is the /boot partition for your new FC4 > installation. When you reboot your computer, it will boot back into the > FC2 grub instance on /mbr. You would need to add an entry to chainload > FC4 in much the same way as a windows entry would be. > > > 3) What is the name of the rpm package containing kernel-devel and > > does it have any dependencies that are not on the 4 distribution cds? > > Kernel-devel matches the version of the kernels you have installed, if > you remove a particular kernel later, kernel-devel does not get removed. > I believe the only dep is to have a matching kernel for the devel package > > > I don't have an Internet connection to use yum, need to download rpms > > on a windows machine, burn them to a cd, and then bring them home... > > (that is the reason I have never installed xine, could not satisfy > > all dependencies manually). From what I read on the list, > > kernel-devel is needed by nvidia drivers. > > Kernel-devel is needed for modules that you would want to compile, like > vmware, nvidia and other items that need modules for the running kernel > to be compiled. > > > 4) Is there any other issue I should be aware of regarding FC2-FC4 > > interaction? It is vital that FC4 does not harm FC2 in any way. > > There is no sure thing for no interactions between the installations. > The most important aspect is to keep things seperate for the two > installations. You can mount partitions from each installation via mount > and mountpoints from one installation to the other. I would not mount > fc4 partitions during boot through FC2. I had no problems getting at the > partitions later. > > > Later on, if I find FC4 stable enough, I will migrate to it and > > delete FC2 eventually. > > > > Any suggestions? > > Be careful and do some more investigating of other options (backing up > data, etc). > Make sure you configure things for each installation to meet your needs. > Check the archives for dual-booting schemes that others have tried. > > Jim > > > Best regards, :-)) Marko > > -- > Prototype designs always work. > -- Don Vonada Thanks for the thoughts. Of course, I'll backup all critical data and will try to do my best in keeping FC2 and FC4 separate. As far as /home is concerned, I will create separate users and their dirs for FC4, in order to keep configuration files separate, and I think now that the best way is to put FC4 /home into it's / partition and not mount /home, because there might be a collision concerning UIDs and GIDs between the two versions. And when I become satisfied with FC4 usability and stability, I'll migrate to /home, carefully. Tommorow I'll go into all this, and will report progress, if anyone is interested. :-) Best regards, Marko
