On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 13:47 +0200, Dirk Gorissen wrote:
Hello,
A simple question really, and one that gives lots of google results but always without the details.
I have 10.1b8 installed and want to reinstall using 10.1RC3 (I dont want to simply update to factory). I have a separate /home partition which I dont want yast to touch. NB: user config will stay exactly the same (just one user, me).
My question: - Is selecting the mount point of /home to point to my home partition during install enough (and setting format to off of course)? Can I trust yast to leave my existing /home/dgorissen alone?
Yes.
OR - should I first rename /home/dgorissen to /home/dgorissen.bak, do the install, let yast create a new /home/dgorissen and then after installation replace the new one with the backup version? OR - ?
Any gotchas I need to be aware of? (like keeping my passwords etc?)
Maybe a "use existing home partition" switch during install would be nice? :)
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998