Thanks, Dan, for enlightening me on something that wasn't obvious, and wasn't
previously pointed out. I'd have been very unhappy with the results of my "safer"
arrangement if I hadn't known that.
Tom
Dan York wrote:
> Tom,
>
> > some new discoveries. Basically, the idea is to put a second hard drive, or
> > better yet, a raid array inside the box, and store your data on that. If you
> > ever have to reinstall the e-smith server, you're not going to wipe out your
> > data; you'll just remount your data drive(s) on the boot drive's directory tree.
>
> One MAJOR caution - the e-smith installation process wipes
> **ALL ATTACHED** hard drives during the install. (Hence the big warning
> on http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/4.1/installingsoft.html )
>
> The answer, of course, is to have that second disk drive in there, copy
> the data to it, etc., and then *physically disconnect* the hard drive
> from the disk controller (just pull the cable) before you do the
> reinstall. After the software is reinstalled, you shut down the box,
> reconnect the hard drive, and power it back up.
>
> The key is that you have to *remember* to disconnect the drive...
>
> Regards,
> Dan
>
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