Any way of installing opensuse in a fedora machine (from harddisk) ?

xiawinter · 02-15-2009, 09:54 PM

I want to install the newest distributed suse 11.1 on a fedora 9 machine (dual boot with xp) and remove fedora from the machine.

I found this post talking about similar case:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ing-xp-439630/

However, I found suse 11.1 use lilo to boot from the hard disk ( I don't a have cd recorder), and can't install lilo on the fedora machine. The mentioned thread is a lot old, thereby I created a new thread.

Here's is my df:

Code:

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda11            12096724   5288188   6194052  47% /
/dev/sda10            28217564  23076424   3707744  87% /home
/dev/sda8               202219     44410    147369  24% /boot
tmpfs                  1032508       112   1032396   1% /dev/shm
gvfs-fuse-daemon      12096724   5288188   6194052  47% /home/samuel/.gvfs
/dev/sda6             30651988  30380960    271028 100% /media/Archive
/dev/sda5             41935424  16468096  25467328  40% /media/PROGRAM
/dev/sda7             10241404   3474044   6767360  34% /media/work
/dev/sda1             31503432   9671124  21832308  31% /media/disk

from sda1 to sda6 are windows partitions, which I never use and can be cleared (or kept, I doesn't care).

I want to keep /home folder.

BTW, I really don't like fedora(but I stay here for more than 8 months), specially when use the cd command, it cannot recognize the folder automatically.

Many thanks for your helps.

Simon Bridge · 02-16-2009, 01:31 AM

In reverse order...

When you use cd command - type the first few letters, then press <tab>.

The install method you want will be like this one:
http://www.bubub.org/blog/opensuse-linux-103-review/

note: according to the specs, opensuse 11 uses grub.

The most likely trouble will be if you have fedora in LVM...

xiawinter · 02-16-2009, 02:41 AM

Thanks, Simon.

According to this guide from suse: http://en.opensuse.org/Installation_without_CD, lilo is needed:

Quote:

Please somebody confirm the information below. Add the following lines to /etc/lilo.conf

Quote:

image=/boot/inst-linux
initrd=/boot/inst-initrd
label=Install_SUSE
root=/dev/hda1 > (You need to set your drive according to your setup)

Do not forget to run lilo before you reboot. This has been tested on two x86 computers with both Grub and Lilo and this works fine.

But I cannot run lilo because I have it not installed. I tried yum search lilo and only this package found:

Quote:

elilo.i386 : ELILO linux boot loader for EFI-based systems

it doesn't meet the needs. btw, this package cannot be installed either.

I tried ignoring lilo. After rebooting, the system reports file not found if I start the grub.

Hope more information.
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For the cd, I mean if you have a folder and a file in a directory, and you use cd f<tab>, fedora doesn't go to ./folder directly, but reports ./folder,./file instead. It's not making sense to report ./file as cd cannot go to ./file. Suse works well on this and go to folder directly.

Simon Bridge · 02-16-2009, 04:29 AM

The instuctions you point to include options for both grub and lilo.
You skimmed too far, back up: the grub section is just above the lilo section - which you quoted.

xiawinter · 03-01-2009, 08:02 PM

Thanks very much, Simon. I can now install suse on any computer. Thanks very much.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Simon Bridge

The instuctions you point to include options for both grub and lilo.
You skimmed too far, back up: the grub section is just above the lilo section - which you quoted.

Simon Bridge · 03-01-2009, 09:06 PM

No worries - don't forget the thumbs-up, but more important: find someone to pay forward...