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From: Matthias Saou <matthias@egwn.net>
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Subject: Re: use new apt to do null to RH8 upgrade?
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Once upon a time, ""Angles" wrote :
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> When I went all "Open Source", I stopped using my old partioning app
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> (partition magic?). For the RH7 install I used FIPS (a couple times).
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> Then ext3 came out and my old commercial partioning app is real old, so I
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> ask what OS software can non-destructively repartition a HD so I can put
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> /home on a seperate partition now?
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Parted is your friend! You can't do _everything_, the most limiting being
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that you can't move the start of a partition, but it's quite powerful
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nevertheless, and I've been very happy with it the few times I've had to
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use it.
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> >If you didn't put /home on a separate partition,
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>
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> With winbloze 9x I used to deltree the winbloze dir and some "Program
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> Files" dirs, and install "fresh" instead of upgrade, while saving my
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> other data. Can this trick be used with this RH8 upgrade? Example rpm -e
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> everything so all packages are gone, hit "reset" button and boot to
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> redhat CDROM in admin (rescue?) mode, delete all those config files left,
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> like "/etc/*", then do an install BUT NOT FORMAT THAT SINGLE PARTITION
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> that I'm installing on. If I can hack the details, is this theory
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> accurate, or will RH want to destructively install and elimate all
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> existing files?
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You're really better off backuping all placed where you know you've hand
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edited or installed some files. For me that's only /etc/, /root/ and
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/home/. Then you reinstall cleanly, formating "/", put your /home/ files
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back into place and you're ready to go.
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That's the moment I usually realize I had a nifty tweak to a file in
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/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ or some special parameters added to an
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/etc/modules.conf entry... so I look at my backup and make the same change
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again. The only thing where you can get stuck is the grub.conf files,
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because although there's a /etc/grub.conf link, it's actually in
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/boot/grub/ so you may want to copy it too if you have special kernel
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parameters to save (I have to pass "pci=bios,biosirq" for one of my
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computers to work for example).
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HTH,
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Matthias
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Matthias Saou World Trade Center
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