On Saturday 11 March 2006 09:38, Tony Nelson wrote: > I'd like to install FC5t3 on my system, in a spare LVM partition. > I already have 4 basic partitions, one of which is my /boot. I'd need to > have FC3 and FC5t3 sharing /boot. If I read correctly you want to share all directories for both FC3 and FCt5. > Do I need to do anything special when > installing FC5t3? Should I let the installer know about the real /boot and > do its thing? Should I have it put everything in the LVM partition and > copy the relevent files from its /boot to the real one, and modify the > grub.conf by hand? > ____________________________________________________________________ > TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> It is not only /boot but just about all other directories (S.A. /lib, /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, etc.), since almost all packages will be upgraded or replaced this would cause serious issues especially upgrades of libraries which are often (always?) linked to the upgraded versions. Examples; libpthread.so.0 -> libpthread-0.10.so libssl.so.4 -> libssl.so.0.9.7a libssl.so.5 -> libssl.so.0.9.7f libssl.so.6 -> /lib/libssl.so.0.9.7f libss.so.2 -> libss.so.2.0 Yum and rpm usage and setup would at least be a kluge and nightmare since they would want to share the same databases. I have done this with /home and even this can have serious issues, since some of the configuration files will be new and/or changed in some way (S.A. menus). -- Some people have convictions. Some people have opinions I think I'll have a cheeseburger!
