Hello all, a longtime lurker here,
I have an old Dell Laptop that has faithfully run various versions of Redhat over the years. The current hardrive in it has Rh7.3 that I'd like to keep on there for a while yet but I'd also like to put Xubuntu on the same hard drive, tried out the CD test and like it. The drive is currently partitioned with a separate boot, swap space and rest on root (/), all ext3 and no other system has ever been near it ;).
Several questions arise:
i) can I adjust the partitions of the hardrive to shrink the current root (/), create a new partion to install the Xubunutu on and set-up GRUB bootloader to give me a choice of which system to boot from? Is the best tool to do this fdisk or is there something else out now?
ii) will I risk losing any of the current data in "/"?
(As always will do a full system back-up first but what's the chances?)
iii) will the systems need separate swap drive partitions or will Xubunutu recognise the current swap partition set-up?
(No idea if or where config for this would be)
iv) can i also partition a new section for to mount the current /home that both systems will then recognise as the new /home?
(Just mount table config here I'm picking)
Thanx for any help,
Greg
