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#1

I’m taking course with Redhat next month for Systems Admin. A Fedora OS along with my 12.3 on same desktop?

I’m taking course in RH because I need a job! But I would never for nothing stop using SUSE at home.

I will need that Fedora/RH OS at home for study purposes. Can you recommend best ways is bestways for both OS’s on my Desktop? :X

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320069754368 bytes255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38912 cylinders, total 625136239 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000eb6d1

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 8787968 29767679 10489856 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 401408 8787967 4193280 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 * 239480832 239882239 200704 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 239882240 449595391 104856576 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

#2

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#3

Well You would need to resize partitions an perhaps move them. Thought of running Red Hat in a VM? VirtualBox is easy to use and RH should install with little problem and you won’t mess with you current partitioning. And you can always take a snap shot of the fresh inatall and go back if you mess up something playing ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H errr learning. LOL

#4

You will need more partitions. So that means that you will need to change existing partitioning.

I am guessing that “/dev/sda3” is “/boot”, “/dev/sda1” is your root partition, and “/dev/sda4” is “/home”.

Here’s a suggestion:

  1. Edit “/etc/fstab” and comment out the entry for swap. It probably has a device id ending with “-part2”.
  2. Reboot, to be sure that your system still boots.
  3. Delete partition 2.
  4. Recreate partition 2 as an extended partition, containing all of the space following “/dev/sda4”.
  5. Create a new swap partition as “/dev/sda5” and run “mkswap” on it if needed. If you boot with a “gparted” disk, and use that for repartitioning, it might take care of the “mkswap”.
  6. Uncomment the swap line in “/etc/fstab” but first change that “-part2” to “-part5” since swap is now partition “/dev/sda5”

That should leave you with space for other partitions, starting with “/dev/sda6”. You can use those to install Fedora.

If you used a “gparted” disk for the partitioning, then you can possibly get it to grow “/dev/sda1” by incorporating the space that you freed up in deleting your original swap partition.

(I quoted your “fdisk” output, but added code tags so that it will be more easily readable by others).

#5

On 2013-09-15 22:46, ledzepp2 wrote:

> I will need that Fedora/RH OS at home for study purposes. Can you
> recommend best ways is bestways for both OS’s on my Desktop? :X

I would start with a virtualized install.

Unless you have two computers, it lets you have access to a working one
while you study the other.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

#6

On 2013-09-15 23:06, Knurpht wrote:
>
> Please post the output again, this time between CODE tags, the # in the
> editor.

Warning to NNTP readers: that part is not available on nntp side. It is
a partition table, four primaries.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

#7

On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 21:08:08 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:

> I would start with a virtualized install.

I would second that. With virtualization, you won’t have problems with
mismatched versions of config items in your home directory (if you tried
to share it between installs), and you won’t accidentally delete (or
it’ll be far less likely) something in one OS that you might need in the
other.

Jim

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