Dual Boot 10.1 And 10.3?

Can I safely dual boot between suse 10.1 and 10.3?

I just added a large harddisk to my system, which already had two physical drives mounted as "/" and the other as "/home". Can I just install 10.3 on the new hard disk, mounting the old "/home"-drive, without messing up my 10.1 system if things go wrong? (I think I manage to configure grub to show both boot options and to tweak the parition suggestion of the suse-installer, but I am too scared to try.)

How about the swap partitions on all drives? Can I mount them in both 10.1 and 10.3 or should I only mount swap drives in either suse?

PS: My system is very old (8 years), but the new drive is of the SATA variety, attached to a cheap SATA-controller. 10.1 did recognize and use it without any hickups right away, great. Will I have trouble with 10.3 accessing SATA, as other posts here suggest? (It worked fine using a 10.3 live-cd.)

Can I just install 10.3 on the new hard disk, mounting the old "/home"-drive, without messing up my 10.1 system if things go wrong[/b]

Yes. During the install of 10.3, Grub should pick up on 10.1 and include it in the new mwnu. Since you are a new user, I recommend you back up the /home partition first, perhaps suing the tar programme.

How about the swap partitions on all drives[/b]

You camn use the same swap partition for both 10.1 and 10.3.

Will I have trouble with 10.3 accessing SATA, as other posts here suggest[/b]

Ordinarily: No. In any event, you'll know from the get go.

Swerdna

10.3 runs fine with sata drives; the problem is installing when a sata drive is in the mix; and then only if your motherboard has an SiS chipset.

Check out openSUSE Bugzilla report 331610 for info about the sata problem.

Once you get 10.3 installed and upgrade to a current stable kernel you should have no problems.

Ok, thanks for the answers! I will try then.