Hi, I have a machine with SL 4.5 and I want to install SL 5.2 on it, but without destroying the /home partition. When booting from the installation CD I am given basically only two options:
- Upgrade 4.5 preserving data. - Install 5.2 destroying all data on the drive. There is also an option claiming to install only on selected partitions, but when I use it I do not see the current partitions and I cannot select which ones to use for installation and which ones to preserve. Is there any way to install 5.2 without destroying the home partition? This is my current layout: $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 1012M 886M 75M 93% / /dev/sda1 99M 74M 21M 79% /boot none 1009M 0 1009M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda5 99G 41G 54G 43% /home /dev/sda6 9.9G 374M 9.0G 4% /opt /dev/sda10 1012M 34M 927M 4% /tmp /dev/sda11 94G 73G 16G 83% /u1 /dev/sda8 9.9G 4.2G 5.2G 45% /usr /dev/sda7 9.9G 2.3G 7.1G 25% /usr/local /dev/sda9 2.0G 439M 1.5G 23% /var # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250000000000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30394 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/sda2 14 535 4192965 82 Linux swap /dev/sda3 536 666 1052257+ 83 Linux /dev/sda4 667 30394 238790160 5 Extended /dev/sda5 667 13720 104856223+ 83 Linux /dev/sda6 13721 15025 10482381 83 Linux /dev/sda7 15026 16330 10482381 83 Linux /dev/sda8 16331 17635 10482381 83 Linux /dev/sda9 17636 17896 2096451 83 Linux /dev/sda10 17897 18027 1052226 83 Linux /dev/sda11 18028 30394 99337896 83 Linux I have to do something similar not only on this machine, but on about thirty machines that we have in the department. Installing fresh on each machine and recovering data from backups is going to take forever, if possible I would prefer to install without destroying the user's data. Thank you in advance! Miguel A. Lerma -- Miguel A. Lerma Math Comp Sys Admin Department of Mathematics <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Northwestern University <http://www.math.northwestern.edu/~mlerma/> 2033 Sheridan Road 847-491-8020 (w) Evanston, IL 60208-2730 847-491-8906 (f)
