Hi,

I currently have RHEL 5.10 installed on one of my servers.

[root@server~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.10 (Tikanga)

logical volume layout is as below:
LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert
lv_audit VolGroup00 -wi-ao 2.09G
lv_home VolGroup00 -wi-ao 16.75G
lv_log VolGroup00 -wi-ao 2.09G
lv_opt VolGroup00 -wi-ao 33.53G
lv_root01 VolGroup00 -wi-ao 12.56G
lv_root02 VolGroup00 -wi-ao 11.00G
lv_swap VolGroup00 -wi-ao 16.00G
lv_tmp VolGroup00 -wi-ao 2.09G
lv_var VolGroup00 -wi-ao 2.09G

I am trying to install 64-bit RHEL 6.2 onto lv_root2 with /boot being shared by both RHEL 5.10 and RHEL 6.2.

During the 64-bit RHEL 6.2 installation I am facing multiple conflicts during package installation (new packages are conflicting with the existing 32-bit packages).

I have googled this quite a bit, in some sites it is mentioned that 32-bit and 64-bit packages need to be of same version to avoid conflicts. Is there any other way to resolve this?

Any suggestion is greatly appreciated.

Thanks and Regards,
ken

Those are 2 different OSes; you can't do that; they have to be installed on separate partitions and you can't mount one inside the other OS and have it run.
They need to either be installed to the metal ie dual boot, or use KVM and put one inside a VM.

This is a separate qn from 64 v 32 bit pkgs.
Those would be the same version nums, but as you should always use the the pkg mgr (in this case yum), you shouldn't need to worry about it.

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Also RHEL 6.2 is a bit OLD and out of date
The current is RHEL 6.5

you are 3 versions behind the current .

Thanks Chrism01 and John