William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 8 Apr 1998, Eze Ogwuma wrote:
> I don't see why you CAN'T just preserve /usr/local and /home (which
> should be on separate partitions anyway) and do a fresh install.
I suppose I can. This would require preserving /opt, /var/, /usr/src/
/usr/local, /tmp and /home.
> Once you've installed onto the non-RAID setup (by install or by upgrade),
> then just copy /usr and friends onto the RAID drive using a
> permissions-safe method (tar, cpio, cp -a, something). RPM will never
> know the difference. :) It's more difficult than a plain install/upgrade
> but not impossible.
This is possible but I would have to either do a minimal install onto
a 100MB root partition then upgrade the rest by hand or keep a large
amount of disk space free for upgrades.
Thanks.
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Eze Ogwuma
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