On Wednesday, 1 June 2022 00:58:32 EDT David Wright wrote: > 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. > > . I've tried to do that David, several times. But the net installer just keeps looping back to that until I use it, which formats it.
Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis
