RE: upgrade from RH9 to Fedora

With advise like "always, always, always put /home on a separate partition"
(and I've heard that more than once) you'd think the install option that
says "delete all (Linux) partitions and repartition automatically" would do
that... create a separate partition for /home

For experts it's fine, but for the newbie, who is likely to just accept
defaults to get things installed.... "doing it right" from the start would
be helpful.

Thanks

> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: RE: upgrade from RH9 to Fedora
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> On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 14:44, Don wrote:
> > Scott,
> > I like to do "clean installs" too... I did that when I
> installed FCT2 and
> > FCT3, and will when FC1 is out as well. Right now I don't care
> if I reformat
> > the entire drive... I bought a second drive just for the
> purpose of running
> > Linux.... but when Linux starts actually replacing my Windows system, I
> > won't have the luxury of simply reformatting the entire disk....
> >
> > What do you do to preserve the contents of /home and other directories?
>
> Always, always, always put /home on separate partition, or better yet,
> drive.
>
> Back up /var/www (if you use it), /etc (to refer back to your old
> configuration -- but don't install it over the new /etc on your fresh
> system of course), /root, /var/lib/mysql (again, if you use it), and
> maybe /usr/local if there's stuff in there you want to keep.
>
> To back it up -- well, I usually just tar/gz it and put it on my home
> drive.
>
> > I wish there were an option in the install process that allowed
> "everything
> > to be wiped out" except for the user stuff.
>
> Anaconda lets you choose what partitions get wiped -- just put anything
> you don't want wiped on a different partition.
>
> > I suspect this is easier said that done though because apps might have a
> > tendency to put stuff in various directories... like maybe a certain app
> > installs fonts it needs.... I might not want those put in the
> X11 directory,
> > but that might be "convenient" for the app....
>
> Fonts get put in one of several directories in the X11 tree.  I tend to
> just re-install 'em.
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