[CentOS] Installing to other than "/" label

Tue May 22 12:00:44 UTC 2007

Am Dienstag, 22. Mai 2007 schrieb Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams:
> On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 13:48 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> > I have a system with Fedora installed on the partition with label "/".
> > Can I install CentOS on a new empty partition (/dev/cciss/c0d3p1), or do
> > I need to remove the "/" label on the Fedora partition and change
> > Fedora's fstab to mount by physical partition? I'd like to keep Fedora as
> > a fall-back OS until I have CentOS completely up and working.
>
> I haven't tried this with CentOS, but I know that a second Fedora
> install to the same system will result in the new partitions with the
> same mount point having a "1" appended to their label. I'd think that
> CentOS would work the same way, but can't guarantee it.

It does work the same way. At least it did on the machine I upgraded from 
Fedora Core 3 to CentOS 5 last week.

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