On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Roger Searle <[email protected]> wrote:
> And if you can't recover those installs, when you decide to reinstall, you > will be able to retain your /home partition and should have all your > settings and documents still there. It's been a while since I did it with > SuSE and others particularly Volker may fill in more details for you, I do > recall though I was very successfully able to have more than one SuSE > install similar to you and be able to tell the install where /home would > be. In fact, just a single /home was all that was required for both > releases. The key point to making this work in the installation comes when > you set up the disk partitions, choosing a manual partitioning rather than > the default, and ensuring you don't allow formatting of your existing /home > partition, which will be easily recognised by it's size if you've put the > disks on different sata connectors. > Same general idea works with ubuntu, should you have a situation where > you're doing a new install as opposed to upgrading. > This has been my journey, on a number of ocassions (be it SuSE or *buntu or > Mepis or others lost in the mist of time) where my "experimenting" and > "fixing" things has wrecked an install to the point where it's easier and > quicker to do another one given my knowledge at the time. One of the great > things about linux is the ease and speed with which it can be installed > these days. It's all good learning... > > Cheers, > Roger Yes, it's certainly easy enough to reinstall if necessary; I was just hoping to avoid that since it's a pain having to reinstall all the apps, etc., but I suspect I may have to do it anyway. Thanks, David
