I'm pretty sure mandrake let's you flag a partition so that it doesn't format it..at least it should have it, every other os has it. I would just stick the cd in, and boot it up, tell it to format the old partitions but leave /home as is.
Jesse Kline a �crit: > Ya, I already have a seperate /home partition. So If I were to just wipe out my > other partitions, and create new ones with the MDK installer, and do a full > install, will it leave my /home partition alone? I just don't want to see that > formatting all partitions window :-). > > Jesse > > Quoting S�bastien Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >>That could work, except for the fact that, and I quote "No, I do >>have a separate /home partition." ;-) Problem solved! >> >> >>Dan Graham a �crit: >> >>>Hi Jesse, >>> >>>1. Delete all but your /home dir. >>>2. Resize what is left with Mandrake's partition resizing tool (hacked >>>parted) >>>3. Name this /home >>>4. Create the rest of your partitions as per. >>>5. Do a full install as required. >>> >>>I just did this with RC3 9.0 for my buddy Howard who had a ton of stuff >>>on one big / partiton. >>>No problem. >>> >>>Cya, Dan >>> >>> >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: S�bastien Taylor >>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Sent: 9/25/02 7:04 PM >>>Subject: Re: (clug-talk) 9 dot o >>> >>>Oh, good, that's easy, you just tell it what partition you want to use >>>as home, and then turn off the format option. Not sure _exactly_ how >>>to do that, I don't use Mandrake, but pretty much every installer let's >>>you do that. The option might also be called "Mount previously >>>formated partition" something like that is what you want...it should be >>>pretty obvious. >>> >>>Make sure you still back up what you can't afford to loose!! >>> >>> >>>Le Mercredi, 25 sept 2002, � 18:20 Canada/Mountain, Jesse Kline a �crit >>>: >>> >>> > No, I do have a separate /home partition. What I want to do is >>> > reinstall >>> > the system (on the root partition) without touching my /home partition >>> > (which does exist). I'm sure that I read somewhere that you can do >>>this >>> > with Mandrake, I'm just wondering how? >>> > >>> > Jesse >>> > >>> > On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 18:18, S�bastien Taylor wrote: >>> >> You mean you didn't put your /home on it's own partition?? Shame on >>> >> you >>> >> ;-) If you didn't you should back it up and do it this time, or else >>> >> you can just delete everything else then install on the sorta-clean >>> >> drive. Or, finally, you could just try to upgrade... >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> Le Mercredi, 25 sept 2002, � 18:00 Canada/Mountain, Jesse Kline a >>> >> �crit >>> >> : >>> >> >>> >>> I really want to have the latest and greatest, but I'm trying to >>> >>> figure >>> >>> out the best way to go about this. I know that upgrades are not >>> >>> always >>> >>> the best solution, but I have large video files on my /home >>>partition >>> >>> that aren't economical to backup on CD. Is there a way to get >>> >>> Mandrake >>> >>> to install over the / partition without touching my /home partition? >>> >>> >>> Or >>> >>> is there a way to do a Debian-style upgrade using urpmi? >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> >>> >>> Jesse >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 16:32, Dan Graham wrote: >>> >>>> >>> >>>> Hi all, >>> >>>> >>> >>>> The new Mandrake 9.0 "Dolphin" has been released. >>> >>>> >>> >>>> cya >>> >>> >>> >>> <signature.asc> >>> > >>> > <signature.asc> >>> >> >> >> > > >
