I have a Debian stable system doing quite a lot of stuff
(DNS,SMTP,POP3,HTTP,Netscape roaming server, rsync mirror of Debian
unstable, lpr server, INN news server, FTP server etc etc).
Now I started adding quite a lot of packages from unstable but I am
starting to have a messed up situation.
I would like to install an unstable on the same machine keeping the
possibility of switching back to the "semi-stable" version if I run into
big problems to avoid long disservice to my users.
Now, could I use the unstable floppies to install the system on a
different root partition but share the same /var, /home, /tmp
filesystems ?? With which LILO syntax ??? BTW the packages if unstable
are already pn my current /home filesystem and I could hopefully install
from there ....
See below for the current partitioning and LILO setup.
Thank you very very much. Eagerly waiting for some good reassurance and
guidance I wish you all the best. Bob Alexander
My HDs are partitioned as follows:
Filesystem 1K-blo Capac mountpoint
/dev/sda1 792800 40% /
/dev/sda2 7776 21% /boot <--- probably stupid since / is <
1024cyl
boundary
/dev/sda5 3958767 0% /proxy <--- currently not used
/dev/sdb5 31046 0% /tmp
/dev/sdb6 295474 22% /var
/dev/sdb7 8117851 31% /home <--- /home/debian has a mirror of Debian
unstable
I currently boot from LILO off /dev/sda and currently goes:
boot=/dev/sda
root=/dev/sda1
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
image=/vmlinux
label=LinuxStable2.2.13
read-only
append0"mem=127M"
