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On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 17:50 +0100, peter wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">I wonder if anyone could give me some advice, please?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I have a SuSE 9.3 Pro installation that is an upgrade from 9.2 Pro. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Since the upgrade a number of things have gone pear shaped, mainly in </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">terms of being able to install updates to software. I suspect there's </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">some problem with the rpm database, but I've not been able to repair it.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">What I'd like to do, therefore, is to reinstall 9.3 Pro, but I don't </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">want to lose the data in my home directory when I do that. Is there any </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">way that I can create a new partition (without hosing everything I've </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">got) and relocate my home directoy on it: and can I then reinstall into </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the original partition without messing up the new one?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Thanks</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Peter</FONT>
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Not much help to you, but what I do is keep two equal sized hard drives in my machine - one with the OS and one with shared data, then when I want a new distro, I copy everything from the one to the other, swap the master-slave arrangement and reinstall on the now-blank HDD - leaving the other one alone to copy off /home, relevant files in /usr etc and then when I'm happy I blank it.<BR>
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That way I went this week from Suse 9.2 to Ubuntu. As an aside, Gnome (in it's 2.10 incarnation) has seemingly come on in leaps and bounds.... I've used KDE since its 1.x days and I've now become a happy Gnome user ;-)<BR>
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