Hey man,
I should have read more of the posts before I replied.
Cya, Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: S�bastien Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 9:08 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: (clug-talk) 9 dot o
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>
>
