On Monday 01 May 2006 7:47 am, Dirk Gorissen wrote:
My question: partition during install enough (and setting format to off of
- Is selecting the mount point of /home to point to my home
course)? Can I trust yast to leave my existing /home/dgorissen alone?
The simple answer is YES as others have said. I have done this many times. Once you have chosen your mount points, simply make sure that the /home file system is not selected to be formatted. The default for existing partitions is generally not to format.
One thing I do before installation is to either print out my /etc/fstab, or simply list what file systems are on each physical disk/partition. In my case at home I have my /home, /usr/local and several other file systems maintained separately that I do not format. There is also the idea that you *might* want to make a printout of backup of your Xorg setup. i.e /etc/X11/XF86Config and /etc/X11/xorg.conf if only for comparison .. you could print them as well.. but IIRC the
into electronic streams flowing thru the cosmos On Monday 01 May 2006 10:39 am, Jerry Feldman wrote: the Xwindow settings are almost always difficult to get right unless you see the damned thing a few tines.And it couldn't hurt, as others have said just to have it backed up.. OF course if the video card has changed or it's just one that took a lot of tweaking to get "right" ( that is in the eye of the beholder ) Yast has got very good at setting up w/ used to be trials and tribulations for many of us.. -- j "There's a woman goin' crazy on Caroline Street Stoppin' every man that she does meet Sayin' if you'll be gentle if you'll be sweet I'll show you my place on Caroline Street" Song lyric