More than one "/" partition with YAST

[boandkris]

I am somewhat of an experienced Linux user and wanted to try out SUSE on my open partition. I will be triple-booting with PCLinuxOS and Vista. When I go into YAST and try to set up my new partitions, it will not let me have a second "/" or "/home" mount point. It wants to use PCLOS' partitions instead of the new ones. I was able to triple-boot with PCLOS/Vista/Kubuntu, but I can't figure YAST out.

I'm sure it must be an easy answer.

Look forward to your help,
Kristin

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So I assume you are using different partitions for the / of SUSE vs the
/ of PCLOS. Just go to the partition for PCLOS, edit it, and remove the
value in the mount field. It is not possible to have multiple
mountpoints to the same part of the filesystem. If you want access to
the other Linux distro's partition while in SUSE mount it somewhere
else, like /mnt/pclos or something.

Good luck.





boandkris wrote:
> I am somewhat of an experienced Linux user and wanted to try out SUSE on
> my open partition. I will be triple-booting with PCLinuxOS and Vista.
> When I go into YAST and try to set up my new partitions, it will not let
> me have a second "/" or "/home" mount point. It wants to use PCLOS'
> partitions instead of the new ones. I was able to triple-boot with
> PCLOS/Vista/Kubuntu, but I can't figure YAST out.
>
> I'm sure it must be an easy answer.
>
> Look forward to your help,
> Kristin
>
>
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[boandkris]

Okay,

I feel really silly now. I kept thinking I needed to have a "/" partition on PCLOS and on SUSE in YAST, but I realize now that YAST was simply trying to set up SUSE's mount points!

I don't know what I was thinking. Everything is okay now. Thank you. I will mark this as solved.

Blessings,
Kristin

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Glad to hear it's working. Thank-you for posting back. Everybody hits
something when they get used to a new distro.

Good luck.





boandkris wrote:
> Okay,
>
> I feel really silly now. I kept thinking I needed to have a "/"
> partition on PCLOS and on SUSE in YAST, but I realize now that YAST was
> simply trying to set up SUSE's mount points!
>
> I don't know what I was thinking. Everything is okay now. Thank you.
> I will mark this as solved.
>
> Blessings,
> Kristin
>
>
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