On 12/27/2012 07:48 AM, lilit-aibolit wrote:
On 12/27/2012 02:24 PM, Nick Holland wrote:
On 12/27/12 05:57, lilit-aibolit wrote:
On 12/27/2012 12:29 PM, Wesley wrote:
Le 2012-12-27 14:15, lilit-aibolit a écrit :
Hello misc.
I have a /home at old system and I want
to install new one from scratch.
But I need to save all data in /home without
moving it out of box.
As I understood I need to stop at this point:
Use (W)hole disk or (E)dit the MBR? [whole]
At this prompt, hit Ctrl+C or "!" and
Why don't you mount a second disk and backup /home to
this one? just before fdisk part.
Cheers,
Wesley
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For example I don't have physical access or second disk.
Or I have a situation when I need to roll back to previous
5.1 system version and then probably to 5.0 due to
Dec 11 14:13:38 gw /bsd: rum0: device timeout
Dec 11 14:13:39 gw /bsd: rum0: could not transmit buffer: TIMEOUT
In 5.0 I had no problem with rum0 in AP mode, but in 5.2 I have.
well... you need to get a bug report in; I see no bug reports on rum
issues in over a year. That's the real problem here. Reverting is not
a good answer here.
As for your question...
Before reinstalling, make note of where all your partitions are mounted
currently.
For a reinstall, the fdisk prompt will include "Existing OpenBSD
partition" or something along those lines...you will chose that (the
default).
After that, you will be brought to the disklabel options -- you want to
chose CUSTOM Layout. Define a mount point for all partitions you wish
to reformat, do NOT define mount points for the /home partition or any
others you wish to retain. You aren't marking "don't reformat"
partitions, you need to mark where all partitions will be mounted,
leaving out the ones you wish to retain.
After you complete your install, edit your /etc/fstab to point to your
old /home partition, mount it (I'd suggest a reboot), done.
btw: you will want to practice this locally on a "test" system first.
Nick.
Thanks for reply Nick, I just did it:
1) select openBSD area
2) select custom
3) delete and create all partition except /home
4) reboot
5) edit /etc/fstab and add line for my /home
end it's work!
You may find my letter about rum0 with
subject "rum0: device timeout" from 12/11/2012 03:15 PM
I'll look into how to create bug report, but how to be sure
that it's not my issue?
I just reverted to 5.1 and it seems to work much more stable:
I can start several ping in wireless and sit in ssh via wifi without lags.
You don't actually need to delete and recreate partitions...simply
"n"ame the mount points you wish to reload, and ignore the ones you don't.
Nick.
