Re: 10.2 64 RC1 install experience

I usually write down my paritions before loading a new version and use the 
'expert' install.  You can probably just copy your old home over  your new home 
and fix ownerships.  chown -R me:me /home/me

Ken

gsteeves wrote:
> Just an interested lurker here (not a programmer) and did a 10.2 RC1 64 
> install using the download isos.  I have an AMD64  Skt 754 Athlon64 3200 
> and  MB K8T800G FSB 800 DDR 400 GA-K8VT800 Pro motherboard. with 1G DDR 
> memory.   I use Win 32 XP Home as my main OS, but have been dual booting 
> and attempting to learn linux with MDK since ver 9.1. 
> I had ~6.5 G HD space partioned for the MDK 10.1 root directories on 
> hda5, hda6 as swap and 35 G partioned for my home partition on hda7.   
> During the install of MDK 64 RC1, I decided to split hda5 partition in 
> two since 10.1 was reporting 40% usage.  My problem:
> During 10.2 RC1 64 install partioning, the program asked me to identify 
> only the location for root (I chose the newly created hda8), but did not 
> ask for the home or swap locations. Should it have or is this a bug?  
> The new installation started fine, but created a new /home directory on 
> hda8 root partition rather than using my original /home on hda7, 
> although it properly recognized and used the former swap partion hda6.  
> As it did not find hda7, it did not find my original user name.  Also, 
> the boot loader did not recognize the original 10.1 partion.   I added 
> this to the loader, but 32 bit 10.1 now starts up with many items 
> failing (including mouse driver).   I mounted the hda7 partition, but 
> cannot read many directories due to permissions.
> 
> 10.2 RC1 64 seems to work very well for me so far (I did have to 
> manually configure the sound) and perceptually appears to be much 
> faster.    I would like to continue experimenting with this version 
> (eventually delete 10.1 partition), but am wondering what I have to do 
> to get my home directory back to hda7 and read my old files?
> G.Steeves
>