hugerobot Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 So if I download the 9.1 distro when it's out of beta, what is the method for installing/upgrading? Does it have an upgrade process to make going from 9 to 9.1 easy? And, is it worth it? Just wondering. I am always interested in the latest/greatest... But I've never upgrade a linux system. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 you can do an upgrade, but most people do a fresh re-install and just keep the /home directory unformatted (atleast, that's what i've heard). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 What tyme said is the correct way to go. There are two upgrade options: upgrade packages only and upgrade. The first one upgrades packages only while the second one also updates/reconfigures ur system files. But none of these upgrades is a good idea since I have found often that all the packages are not upgraded which leaves u with a mixed up system that has lots of problems. The best way is to select the install option. During install, just make sure that the user space /home is not formatted. Obviously, u don't need to reformat the system partitions ( / or /usr or /var) either since the installer can and will overwrite the files on them without reformatting. Reformatting is needed only if u want to check the partition for errors or u want a different filesystem on the partition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 I've used the upgrade option, andits worked fairly well for me. But I generally just keep the /home partition. Its a good chance for a sort out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugerobot Posted January 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 Well... when I installed I didn't do the best job of creating partitions... /home is on /... Any suggestions on how to get /home on its own partition? I expect it involves creating the partition and then mounting it in fstab? BTW - I have partition magic 8 on my windows partition. I bought it so I could easily partition my drive when I originally installed Linux. Now that I am more familiar with the need for separate filesystem partitions, I am very interested in this subject. If I am going to make one for /home, I wonder, should I make one for /usr or /opt while I'm at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 /root /home /usr is a fairly common setup. If you set up a network, you could add /var My top tip is to add a /boot partition. only needs to be a few mb, and as its seldom written to, less chance of getting screwed up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted January 24, 2003 Report Share Posted January 24, 2003 my top tip add /tmp and /var/log to a different partition ... so if a process runs away and genrates heaps of logs it won't screw up the rest of your system Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted January 24, 2003 Report Share Posted January 24, 2003 hugerobot, If u want to move ur home dir from / to /home, obviously, u need to: 1. create free space 2. create a partition in the free space 3. then create a suitable linux-based filesystem (ext3, reiserfs) on it. 4. mount this partition as /home 5. Move all files in ur home dir from / to /home Partition magic will do 1 and 2. U can use the mandrake install cd to do 3. To make sure that ur home files are not lost, make a backup. To do 4, make suitable changes in fstab. Doing 5 should be simple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JaseP Posted January 24, 2003 Report Share Posted January 24, 2003 You can do the same in diskdrake as well,... If you have free space, you can create a new partition and just move the files over. It takes a little work, but it's satisfying to have /home in it's own partition for those rare instances where you want to re-install the OS (like upgrading or switching distros for example). If you have a space HD lying around, this will probably be the best way. You can mount it as something like /mnt/extra and then just dump your existing /home directory to it. After you reinstall, you can then dump the contents of /mnt/extra back into the separate /home partition and create the same user names. Once that is done, you can remove the extra HD, and remove the reference to it from the /etc/fstab file. That's probably the easiest way Having /home in its own partition is also an easier way to have things broken up for back-up purposes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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