On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:50:13AM +0100, Alexander Hall spoke thusly: > Denny White wrote: >> I've always tried to do a fresh install any time possible, >> and then copy all my backed up /home and /data stuff back >> to the new installed system. I'm just trying to figure out >> if there's a way to keep those 2 slices intact while wiping >> out and recreating everything else, i.e., /usr, /var, & /tmp. >> I rebooted on the new 4.4 install cd and tried to see if there >> was a different way to go about things but couldn't figure it >> out there. I read up on disklabel & fdisk & googled around for >> a couple of days before asking the list. So, if someone knows >> where I can find some info on it, I'd really appreciate it. > > Something like replying "no" to "Do you want to use the entire disk for > openbsd" could be a good start. I believe that would keep the existing > partitions, and you could map them to their respective mount mounts again. > I think, however, that you need to _not_ specify mount points for the file > systems you want to preserve to prevent them from being newfs'd. > > Since I seldom, if ever, do that kind of "fresh reinstalls", you'd better > compare the above with install.sh et al. In any way i think it should be > possible, but pretty please do make those backups before anyway. :-) > > /Alexander
Thanks, Alexander. I'll give it a shot. I just did a dump on everything to a separate drive. Also rsync my homedir to that drive nightly. Worse case is, I screw it up & just copy everything back like before. ;) -- Denny White =============================================================== GnuPG key : 0x1644E79A | http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net Fingerprint: D0A9 AD44 1F10 E09E 0E67 EC25 CB44 F2E5 1644 E79A ===============================================================
