From rpm-list-admin@freshrpms.net Wed Oct 2 18:17:52 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.example.com Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C078416F03 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 18:17:51 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 02 Oct 2002 18:17:51 +0100 (IST) Received: from egwn.net (ns2.egwn.net [193.172.5.4]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g92H6BK18308 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 18:06:11 +0100 Received: from auth02.nl.egwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by egwn.net (8.11.6/8.11.6/EGWN) with ESMTP id g92Gw1f18580; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 18:58:01 +0200 Received: from python (gw01.es3.egwn.net [212.9.66.13]) (authenticated) by egwn.net (8.11.6/8.11.6/EGWN) with ESMTP id g92GvUf14924 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 18:57:30 +0200 From: Matthias Saou To: rpm-zzzlist@freshrpms.net Subject: Re: use new apt to do null to RH8 upgrade? Message-Id: <20021002185728.7334502b.matthias@egwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20021002.siy.77121800@www.dudex.net> References: <20021002.siy.77121800@www.dudex.net> Organization: Electronic Group Interactive X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.3claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux) Reply-BY: Tue, 24 Jul 2000 19:02:00 +1000 X-Operating-System: GNU/Linux power! X-Message-Flag: Try using a real operating system : GNU/Linux power! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailscanner: Found to be clean, Found to be clean Sender: rpm-zzzlist-admin@freshrpms.net Errors-To: rpm-zzzlist-admin@freshrpms.net X-Beenthere: rpm-zzzlist@freshrpms.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rpm-zzzlist@freshrpms.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Freshrpms RPM discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Original-Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 18:57:28 +0200 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 18:57:28 +0200 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-14.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,IN_REP_TO,KNOWN_MAILING_LIST,NOSPAM_INC, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, SIGNATURE_LONG_SPARSE version=2.50-cvs X-Spam-Level: Once upon a time, ""Angles" wrote : > When I went all "Open Source", I stopped using my old partioning app > (partition magic?). For the RH7 install I used FIPS (a couple times). > Then ext3 came out and my old commercial partioning app is real old, so I > ask what OS software can non-destructively repartition a HD so I can put > /home on a seperate partition now? Parted is your friend! You can't do _everything_, the most limiting being that you can't move the start of a partition, but it's quite powerful nevertheless, and I've been very happy with it the few times I've had to use it. > >If you didn't put /home on a separate partition, > > With winbloze 9x I used to deltree the winbloze dir and some "Program > Files" dirs, and install "fresh" instead of upgrade, while saving my > other data. Can this trick be used with this RH8 upgrade? Example rpm -e > everything so all packages are gone, hit "reset" button and boot to > redhat CDROM in admin (rescue?) mode, delete all those config files left, > like "/etc/*", then do an install BUT NOT FORMAT THAT SINGLE PARTITION > that I'm installing on. If I can hack the details, is this theory > accurate, or will RH want to destructively install and elimate all > existing files? You're really better off backuping all placed where you know you've hand edited or installed some files. For me that's only /etc/, /root/ and /home/. Then you reinstall cleanly, formating "/", put your /home/ files back into place and you're ready to go. That's the moment I usually realize I had a nifty tweak to a file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ or some special parameters added to an /etc/modules.conf entry... so I look at my backup and make the same change again. The only thing where you can get stuck is the grub.conf files, because although there's a /etc/grub.conf link, it's actually in /boot/grub/ so you may want to copy it too if you have special kernel parameters to save (I have to pass "pci=bios,biosirq" for one of my computers to work for example). HTH, Matthias -- Matthias Saou World Trade Center ------------- Edificio Norte 4 Planta System and Network Engineer 08039 Barcelona, Spain Electronic Group Interactive Phone : +34 936 00 23 23 _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list