While this has already been covered, I thought I'd share the route I
took. When I went from FC2 to FC5, I just a new drive and installed FC5
on it, then migrated selected data off the old drive out of my home
directory. Everything worked as planned and I was up and running about
30 minutes after the distro installation was done. Since I upgraded my
drives in speed (two mirrored 18GB 10Krpm scsi's we had laying around)
but degraded my storage (18gb vs the whopping 40GB I had on the IDE), I
formatted /dev/hda3 and put the home directory on it. It makes for a
VERY nice set up.
Ryan Flowers
www.rykoala.org
Dennis Bagley wrote:
Hey Mike,
Well duh, that makes all kinds of sense!!!! Thanks - with 20-20
hindsight it also seems pretty obvious.
Dennis
Mike McKay wrote:
Boot an Ubuntu Install/Live CD. Run gparted and us it to resize your
existing catch all partition down. Use the freed up space to create a
new partition.
Reboot into your existing install. Mount the new partition, copy /home
to it. Rename /home to /homeOld. Unmount new partition, then remount
as /home.
There ya go separate home partition, ready to ported to a new distro
(go on, you already have that Ubuntu CD)
HTH
Mike
Dennis Bagley wrote:
Jeff,
Thanks, I sort of knew about the special partition - but you gave me
more details.
Unfortunately, while that will work great for some future install
from scratch, it doesn't help a lot
on an existing install.
Dennis
Jeff Shippen wrote:
If you have /home as it's own partition, no problem at all. For
example, when I first installed Linux, keeping that exact concern in
mind, I set up a large partition up and set it to mount as /home,
all in the partitioning stage of the install. Now every install
after that, you want to make sure to do a custom partitioning, and
ensure that the partition is not formated, and again mount it to
/home. The rest of the partitions you'll probably want formated.
You can look up websites for partitioning guides too, but it's
basically all dependent on how big your hard drive is. If I only
had a 6 gig drive, on an older PC, I would just have two partitions
personally. one for / and one for swap. If the hard drive is large,
I use the number of install CDs there are as a guide to how big I
would need for the / partition. With 5 CDs, you will need at least
3.5 gigs, so you might just add a couple gigs for a 6 gig partition
if you were being conservative, or make it bigger if you anticipate
installing large software.
Hope that helps,
Jeff
Dennis Bagley wrote:
If you wanted to switch to a different distro but keep a bunch of
files you had in your home directory......
Besides making backups - is there a way to install the new distro
and keep your home directory pretty much intact?
(not re-format and not erase everything?)
Dennis
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