On Wed 01 Jun 2022 at 00:26:27 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday, 31 May 2022 16:25:01 EDT Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 03:25:59AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> I now know where the seriel convertors are so I can unplug them so I
> could reinstall for about the 25th time if someone could tell me how to
> skip formatting my raid10 /home partition, othewise I am stuck building a
> working system to do my daily stuff from nothing.
>
> The installer blindly goes ahead and formats it every time, losing 6
> months of work in OpenSCAD and thats pure bs IMNSHO. I'm halfway thru
> building another raid10 I can hide from the installer, needing two more
> terabyte samsung ssd's and a slot for aother controller which I can free
> up by temporarily pulling my firewire card that runs my movie camera with
> kino.
I don't understand. You have /home on a separate partition(s), yes?
Then why do you tell the installer anything about it/them?
Just make sure that if you select it/them, they look like this:
┌────────────────────────┤ [!!] Partition disks ├─────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ You are editing partition #1 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda). This partition │
│ is formatted with the Ext4 journaling file system. │
│ │
│ Partition settings: │
│ │
│ Use as: do not use ←←←←←←←←←←←←←←← LEAVE THIS │
│ │
│ Bootable flag: off │
│ │
│ Resize the partition (currently 200.0 GB) │
│ Erase data on this partition │
│ Delete the partition │
│ Done setting up the partition ←←←←←←←←←←←← PRESS THIS │
│ │
│ <Go Back> │
│ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
You don't need a /home *partition* to install Debian. Just let it
create a /home/gene on the root filesystem, populated with the
contents of /etc/skel/, as per usual. When it's done, then as root,
set up your real home directory (or "assemble" it, or whatever you
do) and use the /home directory that the installer created as mount point.
Cheers,
David.
