On April 11, 2005 07:30 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote:
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
One way, without having both 9.2 and 9.3 on the same machine, would be just to do an upgrade install. That will upgrade all the software and leave your custom settings (your system and your home directory) untouched. It's been awhile since I've done a reinstall...I'm still using 9.1. If you really want your home directory as it's own partition, all you do is during the install: 1. When asked what partition to install to, create a partition root (/) as wel as a partitiong for (/home). If I remember correctly, the mount points are in drop down list. 2. Do not format the /home partition. Tell the installer to use it as is. I think it's a checkbox option on the same screen? The install program will create the necessary entry in /etc/fstab so your /home partition will be mounted during bootup. -- Alvin Email: alvinbeach@eastlink.ca WWW: http://users.eastlink.ca/~alvinbeach