Paul Howarth wrote:
Nat Gross wrote:
Paul Howarth wrote:
Sounds great. One question, can I repartition the existing fc2 /ext3 drive without losing data?Nat Gross wrote:
On a new FC3 (or FC2) install, on one hard drive, how do I set it up so that certain directory structures do not get erased when installing to a future version of Linux?
And as a follow up question, can I re-partion an existing fc2 system, to allow the same?
I wasn't aware that this was possible, but the FC-3 install notes allows for reading the iso's "from a hard drive location not overwritten by the installation", which prompted this question. This would prove extremely useful of course, not only for the purpose os install iso's.
You do this my making separate partitions for the areas you think you'll want to keep when doing a fresh install (not an upgrade) at a later date. Typically this would be /home and maybe /usr/local.
If you have the ISO images for a new version downloaded to somewhere in one of these partitions, you should be able to install from them, whilst reformatting and reinstalling everything else.
Paul.
Possibly. It depends on how your system is currently partitioned, how much free space you have and what structure you want to end up with.
Simple fc2 default install has my disk as follows:
/dev/hda1 98meg /boot 85.4 meg free
/dev/hda2 71gig / 62 gig free.
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I would like to have a /usr/data structure (or /data) where I store data from ALL apps.
Also, a /usr/myPrograms structure, for programs that I 'manually' (not from the distro) install.
TA
-nat
Paul.
