Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On 9/28/05, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ever since I've upgraded my friend's pc (from rh9 to fc3), the pc has
been experiencing wierd problems. I would like to chuck it all, except
for the stuff I should keep.
I figure I should keep /home, but what else?
Now, just for the sake of argument, let's say that I'm keeping only
"/home" and "/stuff". Should I first wipe the drive, do the fresh
install, and *then* dump /home and /stuff back in? Or should I dump
them back in *before* doing the fresh install.
Please explain how you would save and dump these file systems. Like
where they would be saved.
Well, that's the reason for my question. I borrowed my second HD
(large) to copy all her partitions. Being very cautious, I used dd to
copy them directly. But wishing to better allocate the unused space, I
created one more partition on the backup HD, a huge one. I mounted her
partitions in the appropriate structure and "cp" the whole thing into
one. Then I wiped her HD (except her windows milaria partition, and
/boot, and swap), created one big partition, and "cp" back on. Then I
went through upgrading rh9 to fc3. What I was hoping to do is just to
temporarily cp (what I need to keep) over to /boot/tmp (or somesuch).
Wipe out what's left, do a fresh install of fc3 and cp the goodies back
in. Either that or leave the goodies in place before the fresh install
(minus a fresh format).
If your system was set up so that /home and /stuff were on separate
partitions, you could tell the Fedora installer not to touch those
partitions.
You should save a copy of /etc because there is a lot of setup
information there that you will want to refer back to after a fresh
installation.
Thanks.
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