On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:38:36AM -0500, 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. 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? Yes, you can do it. The process below is what I do when I move from one major FC rev to the next. I have two 20 GB partitions, one root for FC(n), the other for FC(n+1). They share /boot, /home, and a partition for miscellaneous storage. You should back /boot up entirely before you install. (Heck, you should back *everything* up before the installation.) As you said elsewhere, the file names will be different -- with one exception. Do not allow the installation to write a new file system to /boot (or anything other than the new root partition). Let the new installation stomp on /boot/grub/grub.conf. Then boot to the new installation, and use your backup copy of grub.conf to restore the stanzas for the old installation. You can share /home between them (if it's on its own partition), which saves you a bit of configuration hacking. However, you may find that the new versions of some apps change the config files to the point where you cannot go backwards. Once FC5 stable (ahem) is released, do a fresh installation! Then start porting your old setup over by mounting read-only (ro) the old root partition to the new one, and comparing files. Make a list of the changes you make, so you have that list when FC6 comes out. Works like a charm. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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