F8 -> 9 oops :-(

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 20 May 2008 22:58:55 -0700, Don Russell wrote:

> I "upgraded" from F8 to F9 and must have missed the prompt that said
> "do you want to wipe out your whole system"?
> 
> Anyway, I ended up doing a "clean" install of F9 on sda and I *think*
> my F8 system is still intact on sdb1.
> 
> >From F9, is there a way I can mount the file system on sdb1 so it is
> available for copying stuff from?
> 
> If I can do that, I can just copy over the stuff I need/want...
> otherwise I'm looking at several hours of inconvenience.
> 
> (Like re-ripping all my music CDs)
> 
> I want to mount "/" from the old system... but I don't really get how
> to do that without it looking like I'm trying to have two "root"
> directories.

Seems you haven't used "mount" before. You simply mount the
partition /dev/sdb1 on some directory. For example.

  $ su -
  Password:
  # mkdir /mnt/olddisk
  # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/olddisk

Then you can access your files in /mnt/olddisk.