Reinstall FC8
Richard Shaw
hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 30 12:59:56 UTC 2008
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> ramachandranc1 at aim.com:
>
> >> No.I don't have a separate partition for home.
>
> Ed Greshko:
>
> > You have several alternatives. The easiest would be to backup your home
> > directory to an external disk. If that is not possible, you'd probably we
> > best served by rearranging your disk to provide /home with its own partition
> > prior to doing a reinstall.
>
> An alternative is: Before commencing re-installing, "rm" all the files
> and directories *other* than /home, then continue installing.
>
> You can do that by booting from a rescue disc, or booting from the
> installation disc, but swapping terminals when it pauses for you to make
> some decisions before starting the actual install.
>
> --
> (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's
> important to the thread.)
>
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This method worked for me. Here's a link the the thread that discussed it...
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2008-03/msg00317.html
Richard
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