I was thinking about installing 12.2 from livecd. I was looking at the 12.2 reference manual and under section
1.2 found this for the livecd:
"… you can only perform a new installation (with automatic configuration). "
What does automatic configuration mean? Do you have to accept default partitioning?
I was thinking about triple boot with win7 and two linux distros. The partitions would be
swap, two roots and a shared /data. I know from previous installations of opensuse that
the yast installer has it’s own preferred partition setup and for dual boot systems, I’ve always
accepted it and it has worked just fine. But this is a different scenario.
It means that it automatically scans the hardware, and makes some decisions for you. For example, it will configure the network card to use DHCP, and if there is a WiFi card, it will configure NetworkManager to handle the network. It will assign a randomized hostname.
You can undo all of those things afterwards. Many people find automatic configuration easiest, then they change the hostname later (if that concerns them).
In short, it is no big deal.
No, you don’t. The partitioning options are about the same as with an install from the DVD, as best I recall.
In the partitioning section of install, you can select “create partitioning”, and then use expert mode. You will get a list of current partitions that you can select for use, or delete, or ignore. And if there is unpartitioned space, you can create partitions there.
On 2012-12-25 22:16, reddogg wrote:
> "… you can only perform a new installation (with automatic
> configuration). "
IIRC, it refers to the fact that you can not do an upgrade (the word
upgrade has a special meaning. Installing 12.2 in the same partition as
had 12.1 is a fresh install, not an upgrade, even if you keep /home).
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
In a /home/(user) directory there usually are lots of hidden files and folders
(those whose names start with a period, “.”).
In these hidden files and folders the different apps like Firefox, Thunderbird,
and many more, save certain data which they need to run (like your past eMails
in the case of Thunderbird).
If you plan to use 2 different Linux distros which eventually will have apps
of different versions, then the data stored in these hidden files and folders
may not be compatible among the two different Linux distros you intend
to use.