[sclug] Updating fom SUSE 9.0 to 9.3

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

Personally for a desktop pc, I usually just create

swap
/
/home

Partitions. As a rule of thumb I use 2x available ram for the swap. I 
would probably split the drive into like:

swap 1gig (assuming you have e.g. 512mb ram)
/ 15gig
/home remainder of disk

I would suggest not dual booting linuxes (even though it is quite 
possible to share your home as you asked - as long as your user ids 
match you should have no problems), but rather trying the kubuntu 
livecd out. Note that kubuntu breezy is due out in October so if you 
try the livecd out and like what you see (\o/ kubuntu rocks ! :-) you 
can always swap between distros easily enough. I say this mainly 
because

a) getting your linuxes to dual boot can be a bit fiddly
b) you dont have that much disk space.

To backup your home, use rsync or tar. E.g.

tar cfz /media/lacie/home.tar.gz /home

Using tar will preserve your file permissions etc when you do the 
restore later....

Regards

Tim

On 20 Sep 2005, at 00:40, Stuart Major wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there a simple way to upgrade from SUSE 9.0 to 9.3
>
> I foolishly did not create a home a partition on my original install.
>
> I have an external hard drive and could copy all my data to that and 
> then place it back in the new home directory.
>
> If I do this what other partitions ought I to create this time?
>
> My int and ext hard drives are both 40GB..
>
> I thought I'd upgrade because I want better hardware support including 
> Bluetooth.
>
> I thought about having a dual boot with Kubuntu just for fun, will I 
> still be able to read files in my home directory form both distros?
>
> Any comments?
>
> Thanks, Stuart.
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