Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (157 mails)

[Andy Yankovich <andyyank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi again, 

I'm trying to set up my home directory in a separate partition that 
will be accessible to both 9.2 (now) and later to 9.3 (when it 
arrives).

I have burned all my current /home/ data into a CD.   

I want to practice by re-installing 9.2 on a clean hard drive (clean 
other than having WinXP in hda1).

1. During the re-install, what do I do to have the installation 
install the /home/ directory into a separate partition?  

*OR*

2. Should I install the /home/ data from my CD onto a separate 
partition before I re-install from scratch?  If THIS is the case, How 
do I not install the home directory during the re-install? And how do 
I firsst install the CD into that specific directory?

3. In either of the two choices above, do I need to have some kind of 
linkage from one partition to another? And do I have to have a 
different kind of link when I install 9.3? Could someone explain to a 
newbie how 9.2 in hda3 would know to put the proper data in /home/ 
that resides in hda4. And If 9.3 goes into hda5, is that going to 
work also?

I truly have read and read - until I got sooo mixed up. I need this 
practical application with having the home directory in a separate 
partition because it will help me understand better. 

Thank you guys a whole lot. 

Andy