Re: Fresh install question

2008-11-21 Thread Denny White
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 01:14:46AM -0600, Denny White spoke thusly: 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

Re: Fresh install question

2008-11-17 Thread Alexander Hall
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.,

Re: Fresh install question

2008-11-17 Thread Nick Holland
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,

Re: Fresh install question

2008-11-17 Thread Jorge Valbuena
that partition, and after first boot put the line manually in your new /etc/fstab I hope this can help ! Jorge Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:14:46 -0600 Von: Denny White [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: OpenBSD Questions misc@openbsd.org Betreff: Fresh install question

Re: Fresh install question

2008-11-17 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 15:34:47 Nov 17, Jorge Valbuena wrote: One simple thing that i will try is: If is already installed OpenBSD 4.2 and wants to install 4.3 or 4.4 , first take a look at the /etc/fstab file and write down the name of the /home partition /dev/wd0h /home ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 When

Re: Fresh install question

2008-11-17 Thread Denny White
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

Re: Fresh install question

2008-11-17 Thread Denny White
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 07:04:31AM -0500, Nick Holland 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

Re: Fresh install question

2008-11-17 Thread Denny White
Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:14:46 -0600 Von: Denny White [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: OpenBSD Questions misc@openbsd.org Betreff: Fresh install question I've always tried to do a fresh install any time possible, and then copy all my backed up /home

Re: Fresh install question

2008-11-17 Thread Denny White
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 06:58:22AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam spoke thusly: On 15:34:47 Nov 17, Jorge Valbuena wrote: One simple thing that i will try is: If is already installed OpenBSD 4.2 and wants to install 4.3 or 4.4 , first take a look at the /etc/fstab file and write down the

Fresh install question

2008-11-16 Thread Denny White
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