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.
My Fedora fstab:
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
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.
--On Tuesday, May 22, 2007 12:00 AM -0400 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazqueznet@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Ok, thanks.
The best of all worlds would let me run the installer from the running Fedora, but I suspect I need to boot from the installer CD (or USB key) and then point it at the DVD ISO I've copied to one of the Fedora partitions. I'd guess the installer needs to detect all the hardware, but otherwise just needs to unpack RPM's to the correct location in the new filesystem.
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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