On Thursday 23 June 2005 13:22, Paul W. Frields wrote: >> I didn't, and don't, want to lose my >> archives, 3 GB of music I'd have to rerip, and 20GB of photos I'll >> have to suck back out of amanda to recover. Those are pretty good >> reasons to just update. OTOH, with my amanda wrappers scripts save it all, I can extract a fully functional /home, and all the amanda records from the hd archive I have setup here in less than an hour, so restoreing a working amanda (cd /home/amanda/last_version, make install, ldconfig) is no real problem. >A good partitioning setup would fix this problem. For instance, if > you keep your archives somewhere in /home/$USER, just make your > /home a separate partition or LVM volume. Now you can install > without fear, just use the installation option for "Leave file > system unchanged" for that partition/volume. I do this all the > time, with 10 GB of materials that have survived reinstallations > for RHL 8.0 and 9, FC1, 2, and 3 thus far. Many people with > production servers have similar experiences, whether running > enterprise products like RHEL or Fedora. > >> And the FC4 install just lied to me. On that 'sacrificial box' it >> said I could fine tune its automatic disk config, but it went >> right ahead and formatted the drive and FC4 is about half >> installed without ever showing me what it did to /dev/hdb's 46GB. >> Where is /swap for instance, which I don't want on the same >> spindle as the rest of the system just to keep from thrashing the >> seeks. Apparently I won't know till I reboot and do a df. And no /swap is showing in /etc/mtab. Here is fstab from that box: [root@shop ~]# cat /etc/fstab # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/hdd /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 So, which swap is it useing? Call me puzzled. >Hmm, I hate to cast the problem on the "Big OE," as we say in my > office, but I haven't observed this behavior while using the > installer. Once again, if you can reproduce behavior, use Bugzilla > to file it. > >(I know that you complained about Bugzilla being hard to use, and > while I don't agree, as a Fedora Documentation Project > writer/editor, I can tell you authoritatively that we are planning > a Bugzilla tutorial document that will help novices use it. Many > people don't need that help, but for others in the same boat as > you, it may be indispensable, especially since your problems can't > be worked on effectively without BZ bug entries. I'm telling you > this because I would like to invite you to join the > fedora-docs-list and volunteer to test the Bugzilla tutorial from > an end-user point of view when it's ready.) send a request to "fedora-docs-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx"? >If you really need to do the formatting yourself from scratch, you >should be able to use the "manual" option, and if Disk Druid doesn't >suffice, Disk Druid, while seemingly giving you the options to do what you want, will then proceed to re-arrange the partition orders & types so that /dev/hda2=100 megs for /dos in fat32, gets to be /var. And you cannot even install, let alone boot with only a 100 meg /var. Rescue disk to the handy once you get it figure out what the hell happened. Difficult without better clues, lots better clues. >you can use fdisk from the virtual tty2 (hit Ctrl+Alt+F2) > and then see if Disk Druid will cope with your assignments. It's > quite a decent system now, and again, for specific problems, you > can file a bug against "anaconda" with details if it doesn't work > right for you. > >Once again, sorry to extend the thread. If you'd like to discuss >further let's take it offlist where it belongs. To the extent I can >help you via email, I'd be happy to do so. Ok, hit me off-list then. In the meantime I need to hit the showers as my tv station where I've been the Chief for the last 21 years is celebrating its 45th birthday & I intend to sample the fine, locally made Lambert Winery's product which will be available in quantities, along with some decent food suitable for a diabetic. :-) Back late tonight or tomorrow. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
