Qchem Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 You may also need to chown your home directories back to the user names, even if the usernames don't change - this is because the user id number may change even if the name is the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inha Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 thanks for the advice guys. I'll look into this more closely once I get the dvd-iso downloaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 I always just rename (mv) the user dirs. You still get your old data and don't have any risk of anything weird going on. Always best to start fresh when it comes to user dirs. IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Replicator Posted June 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 Replicator: If you've burned the ISO correctly it should be bootable, ensure you change your boot order in the BIOS. inha: Do you want to keep your Mandrake installation or just the home partition? Do you have /home on a seperate partition, or just part of the root partition? I didn´t burned the ISO already, I just mounted the image, I will check the md5sum adn burn the image using Nero tools, I ask this because when I download the Mandrake ISOs I was able to boot the image using Daemon Tools. Thanks for the advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inha Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 oh and one more noob question: do I have to remove mandrake manually before installing fedora or can I use the partition tools to format everything besides my home partition? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 You can just write over the old partions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 oh and one more noob question: do I have to remove mandrake manually before installing fedora or can I use the partition tools to format everything besides my home partition? use the partition tools to format everything besides your home partition. Just rename the user dirs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlay Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 Can you please explain in SIMPLE terms just what you mean by rename the user dirs? Do you mean rename /home/bert/ to /home/bill/ ? If so, then what? Create user bill during install? or do you mean create user bert and then copy over everything from /home/bill? I know I'm being thick about this. Please forgive my stupidity and bear with me. I'm keen to install FC2 with the option of going back to Mdk10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_the_fish Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 ftp://people.redhat.com/ckloiber/mkdvdiso.sh Roll your own DVD isos using this script. Get the latest CD isos into one directory, then run: #mkdvdiso.sh /path/to/the/cd/isos /location/and/name/of/dvd.iso #growisofs -Z /dev/scd0=/location/and/name/of/dvd.iso A script for Fedora that allows you to just get the CD ISO's and re-make them as one DVD ISO... like I did. Saves on spending ages on getting the actual DVD ISO, which I always had problems with (would only get half way through..) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.