[GRLUG] Installing Feisty Fawn...

[Justin Denick]

On 10/15/07, Jason Kisner <airplanejay at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> thanks :)
>
> ... 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|



Having your home dir isn't uncommon at all.
Just add a line to /etc/fstab


/dev/device_name               /home                   ext3
defaults,user_xattr     0 0

This way the kernel will mount the partition on boot.

On 10/15/07, Marc Zuverink <mzuverink at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Jason Kisner wrote:
> > > On 10/14/07, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> The simple solution would be to tar up your home directory and copy
> > it
> > >> to another machine.
> > >>
> > >> A better solution for your problem would be to use the command line
> > to
> > >> upgrade your system.  What's in your /etc/apt/sources.list?
> > >>
> > >> On 10/14/07, Jason Kisner < airplanejay at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>> I decided to go and make an Install disc anyways since it seemed to
> > be
> > >> the
> > >>> easier solution (in reference to "Updating to Feisty Fawn"), but now
> > I
> > >> need
> > >>> to know how to install without losing everything on my hard drive.
> > When
> > >> I
> > >>> upgraded from Dapper to Edgy I didn't have any thing worth saving so
> > I
> > >> just
> > >>> installed over everything. Now I have too much to lose.
> > >>>
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> > I really suggest that you do NOT use Automatix, it causes all kinds of
> > update/upgrade problems by not following the Ubuntu model of file system
> > placement of files.
> >
> > I suggest strongly that you use the info from http://easylinux.info
> > instead which will provide you with the ability to not only install all
> > the programs that Automatix installs, but a whole lot more to boot. They
> >
> > even provide you with a proper source list to get your repos
> > sources.list file all set up.
> >
> > I would do what was suggested and tar up your /home dir then do a fresh
> > install.  There are nice tools which you can install to make backups
> > more easy.
> >
> > In the future please also note that having a separate partition for
> > /home would alleviate having to back up /home, yet that really is not a
> > good idea either, because the first time you depend on it to not touch
> > /home is when you will screw up and forget to not format /home when you
> > go to do a fresh install.  Having a backup is always the best practice.
> > Removable media and external hd's are cheap enough now a days that you
> > could do like I do and just select all files in your /home and copy them
> > over to a dir on the external and then you are off to a fresh install.
> >
> > The easylinux.info page may be a bit tedious, having to cli install all
> > that stuff, but in the long run you will have learned something
> > invaluable, how to do things yourself, and knowing where you are getting
> > your stuff from.
> >
> > --
> > Marc Zuverink < mzuverink at gmail.com>
> >
> > "Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems."
> >                                                         -Linus Torvalds
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