Am Montag, 1. Mai 2006 13:47 schrieb Dirk Gorissen:
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? 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? :)
Many thanks, Cheers Dirk
I am about to put RC3 on today, but in the previous Beta's 10.1 has always suggested the /home partition, but specified it for formatting! Just go into the partitioning tool and change it from format partition to leave the partition as it is... -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck