Thanks everyone, I feel pretty confident about installing 9.0 now. The only thing left is to get it. Does anyone know of any working mirrors?
Jesse On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 11:06, S�bastien Taylor wrote: > 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> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > >
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