On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 13:06, mark wrote: > On Friday 01 August 2003 12:00 pm, > > From: Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 10:58, mark wrote: > > > When I'm doing an upgrade, such as RH 7.3 to 9, what I really want is > > > to do, basically, a clean install...but *not* format my partitions. Is > > > anyone aware of such an option with RedHat's installer, or do I have to > > > find a way to do it myself? > > > > If you don't want to format, then what do you consider a "clean" > > install? What are you trying to save? > > Umm, home directories, any working directories I've set up, my collection of > source code....
Assuming you've put /home on a dedicated partition, you can just backup your important stuff to a directory in there. Then use Disk Druid to create mount points and format everything but /home. If you haven't broken your install into separate partitions, well... live and learn. -- Jason Dixon, RHCE DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
