moving HDD & new HDD

[JT Moree]

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Matt Graham wrote:
> Redhat 9's been EOLed for years.  It's time to upgrade to something that's not 
> EOLed and is easier to maintain.

Definitely

> Yes, mostly.  Every distro needs its own / , /usr , and /var .  /home can be 
> shared as long as /etc/passwd is the same on both distros.  swap and /boot 
> can be shared.  Just make sure that your second distro's automagic installer 
> doesn't mkfs /boot, or you'll lose the bootloader config and kernel image the 
> first distro set up.  SuSE and Redhat shouldn't use the same filesystem 
> labels for their partitions, but check first before mkfs'ing.  You really 

I don't recommend sharing a home partition between distros because they
usually have very different versions of apps.  One distro might be using
kde 3.5 and the other is 3.4 etc.  this can really screw with your app
settings.  It can be done but use caution.  (that will be a big problem
if you try to keep RH9)

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JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.
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