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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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[SM-Discuss] A partially fresh install,
Duane Malcolm, 07/25/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] A partially fresh install, Eric Sandall, 07/26/2002
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