Installing Debian over a Fedora 12 system
Hi, I've a Fedora 12 system which I'm distinctly unimpressed by, and want to install Debian. It's currently set up with two 1 tb drives. These both have a 250 Mb boot partition and then the rest is a RAID 1, hosting LVM for the other partitions. Am I going to have to back up all of my data in home (separate partition) and start a new structure or is there a simple way of installing debian and have it recognise the existing structure? The partitions are all EXT4 except boot which is EXT3. Thank you for any advice. I'll probably back up home to be on the safe side anyway! Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Installing Debian over a Fedora 12 system
James Allsopp schreef: Hi, I've a Fedora 12 system which I'm distinctly unimpressed by, and want to install Debian. It's currently set up with two 1 tb drives. These both have a 250 Mb boot partition and then the rest is a RAID 1, hosting LVM for the other partitions. Am I going to have to back up all of my data in home (separate partition) and start a new structure or is there a simple way of installing debian and have it recognise the existing structure? The partitions are all EXT4 except boot which is EXT3. You can just reuse your current partitioning scheme, and only reformat /usr, /tmp, /var, /etc and /boot. /home will not be touched. You can even tell the installer about which partition is your /home, so it can set up /etc/fstab for you. If you have /etc,/usr,/var or /tmp not on a separate partition, you can use a live disk to mount the root partition and just remove them beforehand. That way you can avoid that any file from fedora will be present after your new install. Thank you for any advice. I'll probably back up home to be on the safe side anyway! That of course always a good idea ;) Sjoerd signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Installing Debian over a Fedora 12 system
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 12:31:02PM +, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, I've a Fedora 12 system which I'm distinctly unimpressed by, and want to install Debian. It's currently set up with two 1 tb drives. These both have a 250 Mb boot partition and then the rest is a RAID 1, hosting LVM for the other partitions. Am I going to have to back up all of my data in home (separate partition) and start a new structure or is there a simple way of installing debian and have it recognise the existing structure? The partitions are all EXT4 except boot which is EXT3. Thank you for any advice. I'll probably back up home to be on the safe side anyway! My thoughts are: 1. keep fedra 2. Experiment with Debian in qemu+kvm. 3. Backup super critical data to CD/DVD from /home. 4. Make live CD of any recent Linux distro which has gpartd included. 5. Play with gpartd after booting from live CD. 6. Install Debian into newly created empty space. 7. Move date from old system by mounting them into Debian. ... Cheers, Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
