On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 09:21:45PM +0200, Florian Bantner wrote: > Thanks for the answer (to the other, too), but still there are two > points: > 1. Only one big partition (30GB) mountet as / > 2. Noone will go to the terminal for me, which means > either it comes up or -- hello again plain SuSE, goodbye 70.-
The second problem can be avoided with "lilo -R" trick. The first one is really difficult to overcome in your example. If the filesystem on the disk is ext2 (or ext3) then there is a tool ext2resize, which can resize the partition without losing data, but you can't do that on a mounted partition. Maybe you could play with chrooted installation, as someone else suggested, but I don't have any experience in this field. But wait, maybe there is a separate swap partition configured? You could switch off the swap and use that partition for Debian. I guess 64 MB could be enough. In case you have very little RAM available, you could use a regular swap file. Marcin
