On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Sorin Peste <neaorin@gmail.com> wrote:-
Hi,
After running with SUSE 10.1 for a while I've decided it's time to upgrade to openSUSE 10.2. What I'd like to do is a fresh 10.2 install while keeping all my /home files (they are on a separate partition). But I can't seem to get the installer to leave that partition alone. My 80-gig hard disk is partitioned as follows:
sdb1: 1.5GB Linux swap sdb2: 20GB Linux (reiserfs) / sdb3: 53GB Linux (reiserfs) /home
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I don't know what to do. I'd like to start fresh without losing my files, if possible. Can I accomplish that without moving an awful lot of files to another storage?
Start the installer and when the installer gets to the "Installation Settings" page: 1, click on "Partitioning"; 2, select "Create Custom Partition Setup" and click next; 3, select "Custom Partitioning (for experts)" and click next; 4, click on the "Expert.." button and select "Import Mount Points from existing /etc/fstab"; 5, when the installer finds the correct /etc/fstab[0], accept the choice; 6, click on the partition that is to be / and then click edit[1]; 7, click on the "Format" radio button, ensure it's going to create the correct file system, and then click "OK"; 8, click "Accept" to get back to the "Installation Settings" page. After that, you can proceed with the installation and the installer with leave your files alone[2]. [0] when you're booting at least two different versions of Linux there may be more than one. [1] If you're feeling a little lazy, you can also double-click the entries and it'll pop up the "Edit partition" dialogue box. [2] Well, that's with the exception of maybe changing the UID when you add all the users. Regards, David Bolt -- Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 50 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/ RISCOS 3.11 | SUSE 10.0 32bit | SUSE 10.1 32bit | openSUSE 10.2 32bit RISCOS 3.6 | SUSE 10.0 64bit | SUSE 10.1 64bit | openSUSE 10.2 64bit TOS 4.02 | SUSE 9.3 32bit | | openSUSE 10.3a1 32bit -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org