Installer.

[Linus Swälas]

I'll backup my mail and then I'll trust you. ;)

Thanks!

    /  Linus

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Michal Moskal wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:39:21AM +0000, Linus Swälas wrote:
> >
> > I've got a quite simple question that I'd like to have answerd, I'm out of
> > diskspace so I can't check this myself. (And someone ought to know).
> > When booted, the latest iso prints a warning saying that the installer isn't
> > made for multios boot and that it will destoy all data on the disk. I don't want
> > to multiboot so that's fine but I do have a home partition (/dev/hda7) which I
> > _DON'T_ want formatted.
> > So my simple question is: Will the setup/installer destroy the partition
> > table/format all partitions even if I choose "Use existing" from within the
> > setup program? And do I have to specify the partitions I already have on the
> > disk to the setup program? (/dev/hda1,swap hda2,/ hda3,/var hda5,/tmp hda6,/usr
> > and hda7,/home). It seems to me that it won't destroy data in this case but
> > since I cannot backup this data I want to KNOW. (I really don't want to loose my
> > /home, it's quite old. =))
>
> If you choose use_existing, it won't create new partitions. If you
> choose destX_format_parition=no, it won't even format it. You should
> set it to `no' for /home and I guess to `yes' for others.
>
> Howver, use at your own risk and so on :)
>
> Best ragards
>