[SWLUG] Install without losing data

[Adam Rykala]

On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 17:50 +0100, peter wrote:

> I wonder if anyone could give me some advice, please?
> 
> I have a SuSE 9.3 Pro installation that is an upgrade from 9.2 Pro.  
> Since the upgrade a number of things have gone pear shaped, mainly in 
> terms of being able to install updates to software.  I suspect there's 
> some problem with the rpm database, but I've not been able to repair it.
> 
> What I'd like to do, therefore, is to reinstall 9.3 Pro, but I don't 
> want to lose the data in my home directory when I do that.  Is there any 
> way that I can create a new partition (without hosing everything I've 
> got) and relocate my home directoy on it: and can I then reinstall into 
> the original partition without messing up the new one?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Peter
> 
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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.

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 ;-)

A

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