<br><br><p><DEFANGED_div><DEFANGED_span class="gmail_quote">On 10/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jason Kisner</b> <<a href="mailto:airplanejay@gmail.com">airplanejay@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</DEFANGED_span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
thanks :)<br><br>... unfortunately I was impatient... I'm not sure what I did wrong but I followed what Mike said and something broke... It wouldn't even let me access root.. but anyway, I ended up using the disc I created. It saved my /home dir but it kept it as a seperate partition... now I have to mount that partition every time I reboot my computer. X|
</blockquote><p><DEFANGED_div><br><br></p><DEFANGED_div><p><DEFANGED_div><DEFANGED_span class="e" id="q_115a3ef8a44ada7b_1">Having your home dir isn't uncommon at all.</DEFANGED_span></p><DEFANGED_div><p><DEFANGED_div>Just add a line to /etc/fstab<br><br><br>/dev/device_name /home ext3 defaults,user_xattr 0 0
<br><br>This way the kernel will mount the partition on boot.<br></p><DEFANGED_div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><p><DEFANGED_div><DEFANGED_span class="e" id="q_115a3ef8a44ada7b_1">
<p>On 10/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Marc Zuverink</b> <<a href="mailto:mzuverink@gmail.com" target="_blank" DEFANGED_onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mzuverink@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Jason Kisner wrote:<br>> On 10/14/07, Michael Mol <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com" target="_blank" DEFANGED_onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mikemol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> The simple solution would be to tar up your home directory and copy it
<br>>> to another machine.
<br>>><br>>> A better solution for your problem would be to use the command line to<br>>> upgrade your system. What's in your /etc/apt/sources.list?<br>>><br>>> On 10/14/07, Jason Kisner <
<a href="mailto:airplanejay@gmail.com" target="_blank" DEFANGED_onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">airplanejay@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>>> I decided to go and make an Install disc anyways since it seemed to be
<br>>> the<br>>>> easier solution (in reference to "Updating to Feisty Fawn"), but now I
<br>>> need<br>>>> to know how to install without losing everything on my hard drive. When<br>>> I<br>>>> upgraded from Dapper to Edgy I didn't have any thing worth saving so I<br>>> just
<br>>>> installed over everything. Now I have too much to lose.<br>>>><br>>>> --<br>>>> Rensik nosaj si eman ym.<br>>>> Worromot rof nalp, yadot rof evil.<br>>>> _______________________________________________
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http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug</a><br><br>I really suggest that you do NOT use Automatix, it causes all kinds of<br>update/upgrade problems by not following the Ubuntu model of file system<br>placement of files.
<br><br>I suggest strongly that you use the info from <a href="http://easylinux.info" target="_blank" DEFANGED_onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://easylinux.info</a><br>instead which will provide you with the ability to not only install all
<br>the programs that Automatix installs, but a whole lot more to boot. They
<br>even provide you with a proper source list to get your repos<br>sources.list file all set up.<br><br>I would do what was suggested and tar up your /home dir then do a fresh<br>install. There are nice tools which you can install to make backups
<br>more easy.<br><br>In the future please also note that having a separate partition for<br>/home would alleviate having to back up /home, yet that really is not a<br>good idea either, because the first time you depend on it to not touch
<br>/home is when you will screw up and forget to not format /home when you<br>go to do a fresh install. Having a backup is always the best practice.<br> Removable media and external hd's are cheap enough now a days that you
<br>could do like I do and just select all files in your /home and copy them<br>over to a dir on the external and then you are off to a fresh install.<br><br>The <a href="http://easylinux.info" target="_blank" DEFANGED_onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
easylinux.info</a> page may be a bit tedious, having to cli install all
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