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  • From: "Eric Sandall" <sandalle AT hellhound.homeip.net>
  • To: <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>
  • Cc: <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] A partially fresh install
  • Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:27:56 -0700 (PDT)

Duane Malcolm said:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Sourcemage system with four partitions "/", "/var", "/home" and
> swap partition. I would like to reinstall my system with Sourcemage and
> not touch the "/home" partition. Can anyone please how I would do this
> or give me some tips? Do I go through the unguided Sourcemage install? I
> have played around with system, casting and dispeling programs and
> would like to tidy the system up.
>
> Cheers in advance, Duane.

Duane,

I have done this with several SM installations. Just don't change your
/home partition and don't mount /home until _after_ the installation is
done. Then put the information for /home into your /etc/fstab file and
it's back the way it was.

-One of Three

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