[CALUG] Upgrading from RH 7.3

Tue Feb 14 01:03:04 CST 2006

Dave,
Nice way to partition your system. Dont get me wrong, looks more like SUN
Solaris partitioning. :)
If you do not like to repartitioning, YES, you can still have dual boot and
install FC4 on these partitions.

If I had my way (of course this is your computer, not mine, so have very
less say in it), I would remove all these partitions, (after backing up the
files needed most), then have these partition sizes
/boot  -> 50 MB
/      -> 8 GB
/var   -> 2 GB
swap   -> 700 GB ( or 1 x RAM )
/home  -> 5 GB
/apps  -> rest of the space
This way, even if you switch Linux distributions, you will have 1 partition,
which will always be constant (/apps) so you can keep formating the other
partitions.
Here is how my home PC is partitioned.

gunjas at agni10:~$ df -h | grep ^/ | sort
/dev/hda1             141M   35M  106M  25% /boot
/dev/hda5             9.8G  2.5G  7.4G  26% /
/dev/hda6              18G   17G  528M  98% /disks/D
/dev/hda8             1.2G  476M  750M  39% /home
/dev/hda9             7.5G  191M  7.3G   3% /software
/dev/hdb1              28G  8.1G   20G  29% /download
/dev/hdb2              12G   33M   12G   1% /backup
/dev/hdb3              36G   16G   21G  43% /vmware

Good luck

-GGR

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Rajiv G Gunja
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On 2/13/06, Dave Bazell <bazell at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Jim, Rajiv, "junekis",
>
> Thanks for the information.  I have another question that was prompted by
> what Jim said.  I have an existing version of RH on my computers (dual
> boot)
> with the following partitions:
>
> /dev/hdb3    3644        /
> /dev/hdb1        45        /boot
> /dev/hdb2    49214     /home
> none                251    /dev/shm
> /dev/hdb8        190     /tmp
> /dev/hdb6       1969    /usr
> /dev/hdb5        1969    /usr/local
>
> Can I load, for example Fedora Core 4, on these partitions?  Do I have to
> repartion my whole drive or delete the stuff on these partitions before
> installing?  I take it from what you said, Jim, that you install the whole
> system on one partition?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Ewing Cottrell 3rd" <JECottrell3 at Comcast.NET>
> To: "Dave Bazell" <bazell at comcast.net>
> Cc: <lug at calug.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 8:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [CALUG] Upgrading from RH 7.3
>
>
> > First, you have to choose which OS you want to run. If you want "the
> > latest RedHat" you have essentially two chooices:
> >
> > [1] Fedora Core 4
> > [2] CentOS 4.2, which is an unbranded version of Red Hat Enterprise
> > Linux. In theory you can also go with "White Box Linux", but their
> > distribution/update servers are MUCH slower.
> >
> > I do my downloading with DAP (www.speedbit.com) under Windows, as well
> > as my burning too. I only burn the first CD, and tell Linux to load from
> > disk. In the RedHat world, you have to say "linux askmethod" at the
> > "boot:" prompt, then later specify the disk and directory that contains
> > the ISO images. I use Comcast cable, and a full 4 set CD takes an hour
> > or so.
> >
> > When you boot the first CD, you can boot in Rescue Mode, mount your old
> > partition, and do the following:
> >
> > $ mount /dev/hdxx /mnt
> > $ cd /mnt
> > $ mkdir OLD
> > $ mv .??* * OLD
> >
> > You will get a complaing about not being able to move OLD to itself, but
> > that's to be expexted. Then, when you do the install, simply choose not
> > to format the partition.
> >
> > Of course, while I am against splitting a system up across partitions
> > (/, /boot, /usr/, /var, etc), I don't mind chopping up a disk into
> > several partitions and running multiple versions of linux (or M$, or
> > BSD) in each one. In fact, both of my two internal drives have the full
> > complement of 16 partitions each!
> >
> > JIM
> >
> > Dave Bazell wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have dual boot Windows XP/RHLinux system running RH 7.3 (Valhalla)
> with
> > > kernel version 2.4.18-3.  I want to upgrade to whatever is the current
> RH
> > > version since I am more frequently downloading sw that won't compile
> becuase
> > > I have an old version of something, usually libc.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions about the best way to do this?  Just install current
> version
> > > that I download from RH (hours worth of downloading over my cable
> modem)?
> > > Other approaches?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >
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