On 8/25/10 8:14 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:52, Rodney D. Myers <rod_my...@fastmail.fm> wrote: >> On 8/25/10 7:49 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > ... >>> Can anyone say for sure what will happen during installation with an >>> existing ext4 partition to be retained? > ... >> What other partitions? I'll assume /home, and anything else? > > I have three disks with the partition setup as follows (mount points are > shown): > > d1 (4 partitions): > > /boot - ext2 # will reformat > / - ext3 # will reformat > /usr/local - ext4 # keep > swap # will reformat > > keep: > > d2 (1 partition): /disk2 - ext4 > d3 (1 partition): /disk3 - ext4 > > Normally with other distros I would use manual disk setup during > installation and use the labels I have on the partitions to assign the > mount points. > > I assume I can probably get away with ignoring disks 2 and 3 and set > them up later, so I'm not concerned about them so much during > installation. In a pinch I can probably do the same with the > /usr/local partition on disk 1. But I would like to avoid those > actions if I can. > > Note that I have a "people" directory under "/usr/local" instead of > "/home" since that's the way I learned under Irix many years ago and > so it's for "historical" reasons as they say. > > Thanks, Rodney. > > -Tom
When installing, and the "experts" will correct me if I'm wring ;-) ,
use the expert system when doing the drive formatting. In there, you can
mark each partition as keep, ignore, format, etc. Also in there, you can
assign each partition a mount point as well.
Hope this makes sense.
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