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| From | Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot |
| Date | 2017-11-13 10:00 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <uLiKZ-3NI-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <uLdUZ-HB-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
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Dan Norton:
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> My first Linux install was about one year ago. After some missteps, I have
> used Debian 8 in reasonable satisfaction on the desktop during that year.
> Now I want to leave 8 in place and do a network install for Debian 9 on the
> same disk and switch back and forth at boot time.
Your disk setup allows to do this comparably easy, but I would think
twice whether that is actually what I want to do. You end up with two
systems which you have to maintain and, most importantly, you cannot
properly share your /home. Most programs that save their settings to
$HOME will automatically upgrade their configuration files on first
start with a new version and after that you have to assume that the
older version cannot read it anymore. I realize that this is part of
your disk space calculation but I want to stress that the result is
probably not something that you will want to use for an extended period
of time.
> LVM reports as follows:
>
> dan@debian:/$ sudo vgdisplay -C
> VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
> debian-vg 1 5 0 wz--n- 976.56g 938.20g
You can vgreduce debian-vg easily to make room for your planned
debian9-vg.
> So there is plenty of disk space for the two Debians and more besides. The
> question is how to prepare to install 9? My guess is to define another
> volume group called debian9-vg perhaps but how will this be recognized
> during network install?
Yes, it will. It should also be possible to vgreduce debian.vg and
vgcreate debian9-vg inside the installer, but I would be more
comfortable doing that from the running system, using the regular tools.
During installation, you just have to make sure that all LVs in
debian-vg are marked as "Do not use".
> I've clobbered stuff before during installs and I'm
> gun shy. Maybe there is a better way. Any thoughts on this will be
> appreciated.
It happens to everybody. The only things that help are a good plan and
concentration on the task at hand. :)
J.
--
I like my Toyota RAV4 because of the commanding view of the traffic
jams.
[Agree] [Disagree]
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Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-11-30 03:20 +0100
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Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2017-11-13 10:00 +0100
Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-11-13 17:00 +0100
Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2017-11-13 21:30 +0100
Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2017-11-13 13:00 +0100
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Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-11-13 20:00 +0100
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Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-11-29 10:10 +0100
Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-11-29 19:00 +0100
Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-11-29 20:00 +0100
Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-11-29 20:40 +0100
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