Denny White wrote:
I've always tried to do a fresh install any time possible,
and then copy all my backed up /home and /data stuff back
to the new installed system. I'm just trying to figure out
if there's a way to keep those 2 slices intact while wiping
out and recreating everything else, i.e., /usr, /var, & /tmp.
I rebooted on the new 4.4 install cd and tried to see if there
was a different way to go about things but couldn't figure it
out there. I read up on disklabel & fdisk & googled around for
a couple of days before asking the list. So, if someone knows
where I can find some info on it, I'd really appreciate it.
Something like replying "no" to "Do you want to use the entire disk for
openbsd" could be a good start. I believe that would keep the existing
partitions, and you could map them to their respective mount mounts
again. I think, however, that you need to _not_ specify mount points for
the file systems you want to preserve to prevent them from being newfs'd.
Since I seldom, if ever, do that kind of "fresh reinstalls", you'd
better compare the above with install.sh et al. In any way i think it
should be possible, but pretty please do make those backups before
anyway. :-)
/Alexander
