upgrading SUSE64 + removing SUSE32 & XP

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#1

Hello there,

I have a quite complicated stuff on my server (6 physical HD in different raid modus raid to get 1250Gb +2500gb available):

My situataion now:

*XP on sda
Suse32_10.2 on sdb
Suse64_10.3 on sdc ( / on sdc1 + /home on sdc2 )
*

Now I’d like to have only:

new! Suse64*_11** on the /sdc1
old /home on sdc2*

I want to install from zero Suse64_11, not to upgrade from 10.3.

I want to format completely the other units where XP and SUSE32 are and get this space available for suse 64 11.

Can I manage it just with the installation DVD of SUSEx64_11?
what exactly should I do?

many thanks, Alex

#2

That’s possible.
You can format sdaX, sdbX, sdc1
Install Suse on which partition you want and set sdc2 as your /home (without formatting that!!)

#3

@alexzive
Except it would be better if we had actually seen the result of

fdisk -l

And you don’t specify which version you plan to upgrade to. You say 11
But 11.0 support will end soon, so it begs the question - don’t you mean 11.2

And such an upgrade would benefit from a new /home, especially if it’s kde you use. And you can then also format to ext4.

#4

alexzive wrote:
> I want to install from zero Suse64_11

i don’t know a Suse64_11

i know a openSUSE 11.0, 11.1, 11.2 and 11.3 M2 available in 64, and i
know a SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) and SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server (SLES) version 11 which also comes in 64…and, there are
several SUSE products available from http://www.novell.com/products/
but i’ve not looked to see which are in 64 and which are not…

which is it you wish to install?

–
palladium

#5

hello guys,
thank you for your suggestions.

I would like to install openSUSE 11.0 64 bit, because I have the installation-DVD with me already.

If you strongly recommend me to install 11.2, than I will follow your suggestion.

  1. is it possible to format sdaX, sdbX during installation or should I do it in advance booting via DVD wit isolinux or similar?

2)do I need to just format the entire volume sda, or all the single sdaX (the same for sdb)?

many thanks,
Alex

here my fdisk -l ( I was wrong, XP also on sda, no idea what’s on sdb)


Disk /dev/sda: 250.8 GB, 250808893440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30492 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc792c792

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1       15246   122463463+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2   *       15247       27443    97972402+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3           27444       30492    24491092+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda5           15247       17857    20972826   83  Linux
/dev/sda6           17858       27443    76999513+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 501.6 GB, 501628272640 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60986 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9d40e73d

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1       60986   489870013+  42  SFS

Disk /dev/sdc: 501.6 GB, 501628272640 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60986 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000d4074

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1               1        2611    20972826   83  Linux
/dev/sdc2            2612       60986   468897187+  83  Linux
#6

Yes you can do it all form the DVD
But think about it. 11.0 will end support very soon
SUSE Linux Lifetime - openSUSE

So it’s a load of work for not much gain.

My advice get 11.2

Keep sdc2 /home if you must
But you miss the chance format it to ext4

#7

If you want to use “sda” as a single drive, you have to delete the existing partitions, and create a new one. Otherwise you just format sda1, sda2,… that qould give you the same structure as now.
Can be done via DVD setup :wink:

But are you sure that

XP on sda
Suse32_10.2 on sdb
Suse64_10.3 on sdc ( / on sdc1 + /home on sdc2 )
is right?

For me it looks like
sda1 - win xp
sda3 - swap
sda5 - suse 10.2 (home, /)
sda6 - suse 10.2 (home, /)

sdb1 - ? (SFS?)

sdc1 - suse 10.3
sdc2 - suse 10.3 home

Just to be sure!