SUSE 9.0 Install (dumb) question
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I just started a 9.0 installation on my laptop that is currently running
8.2. It told me that it could not use the existing partitions, and
defaulted to /dev/hda3 (as root) and /dev/hda2 (as swap).
My 8.2 system currently has /dev/hda1 as root and /dev/hda3 as home.
While I can manually override this and use the correct partitions, my
concern is that my existing /home filesystem may not mount on 9.0.
Since I have this fully backed up, it does not pose a problem with the
laptop, and I have no qualms about reformatting the laptop. But, it does
have some bearing when I build 9.0 on my desktop system. I want to be
able to mount my existing /home /usr/local and a few other filesystems.
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Jerry Feldman
That has not happened with previous upgrades, may be something new in 9.0. On my laptop, I did an upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0 and it's been fine. It is also running a 2.4.23-pre8 kernel I built under 8.2. If you back up your critical files or like I did here, backed everything (/) up using rsync to one of my other boxes, then did an upgrade without having to use anything from the backup. I was a bit worried when it started removing some of my packages, but the only one I had to reinstall was netscape-4.8, but all configs, /home, /root remained intact. Regards Sid. Jerry Feldman wrote:
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I just started a 9.0 installation on my laptop that is currently running 8.2. It told me that it could not use the existing partitions, and defaulted to /dev/hda3 (as root) and /dev/hda2 (as swap). My 8.2 system currently has /dev/hda1 as root and /dev/hda3 as home.
While I can manually override this and use the correct partitions, my concern is that my existing /home filesystem may not mount on 9.0.
Since I have this fully backed up, it does not pose a problem with the laptop, and I have no qualms about reformatting the laptop. But, it does have some bearing when I build 9.0 on my desktop system. I want to be able to mount my existing /home /usr/local and a few other filesystems.
- -- Jerry Feldman
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-- Sid Boyce .... Linux Only Shop.
That has not happened with previous upgrades, may be something new in 9.0. On my laptop, I did an upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0 and it's been fine. It is also running a 2.4.23-pre8 kernel I built under 8.2. If you back up your critical files or like I did here, backed everything (/) up using rsync to one of my other boxes, then did an upgrade without having to use anything from the backup. I was a bit worried when it started removing some of my packages, but the only one I had to reinstall was netscape-4.8, but all configs, /home, /root remained intact. Regards Sid. I rarely go for an upgrade, but I like to maintain my /usr/local and /home. In the past, I had use Partition Magic to build the partition
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On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 21:15:44 +0000
Sid Boyce
I only just read the whole post and see you have it all backed up, so going for an update is worth the try. I've not lost anything from /home or /usr/local. I have only /dev/hda1 as / and /dev/hda2 as swap. Regards Sid. Jerry Feldman wrote:
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I just started a 9.0 installation on my laptop that is currently running 8.2. It told me that it could not use the existing partitions, and defaulted to /dev/hda3 (as root) and /dev/hda2 (as swap). My 8.2 system currently has /dev/hda1 as root and /dev/hda3 as home.
While I can manually override this and use the correct partitions, my concern is that my existing /home filesystem may not mount on 9.0.
Since I have this fully backed up, it does not pose a problem with the laptop, and I have no qualms about reformatting the laptop. But, it does have some bearing when I build 9.0 on my desktop system. I want to be able to mount my existing /home /usr/local and a few other filesystems.
- -- Jerry Feldman
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-- Sid Boyce .... Linux Only Shop.
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