Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Monday 22 November 2004 07:14 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
I have a working 9.0 system now and am getting 9.2 tomorrow. I figured that as long as I had a backup of my /home and /etc directory, I'd let the new 9.2 system configure as much as possible, using the partitions I had setup for 9.0, and then restore my /home backup to the new /home partition on 9.2.
Now I am seeing that I can install 9.2 over 9.0, redefine the partitioning and if unsatisfied could roll back to 9.0.
Given that I have precious little extra free space on the partitions, how could I repartition and then possible roll back to the old partitioning? To my knowledge a disks partitioning is read before anything else and is 'hard coded' into the HDD, overwriting the old stored partition values, when you partition it.
So how can I 'roll back' a 9.2 install to 9.0 given that the partitions it used have been overwritten by the new 'unwanted' 9.2 system??
No one has answered this so I will give you what I understand....
Once you have re-partitioned, reusing old space, there is no return. The only way to do what you want is to define totally new partitions and leave the old partitions intact. Works like a charm if you have the space to do it. Thanks Bruce.
That is exactly the way I thought it was. -- The Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 Licenced Windows user ========================================================================