On Sunday, February 27, 2022 4:26:24 PM EST William Morder via tde-users wrote: > On Sunday 27 February 2022 13:14:08 Michael wrote: > > > On Sunday 27 February 2022 02:23:21 pm gene heskett wrote: > > > > > Surely whats been installed should be removable without destroying > > > the rest of the system? But that approach isn't on the menu. > > > > > > > > Hi Gene, > > > > > > > > Okay, I have not read this whole thread, so if I've misunderstood so > > be it… > > > > > > > MX Linux (Debian derivative) has options during install to ‘preserve > > home’ and to not have to reformat the HD. My last install took a > > total of about 30 minutes and I did not have to reconfigure every > > TDE package to get them back to how I like them. Between the two > > options I probably saved 100 hours of ‘work.’ > > > > > > > > HTH, if not best anyways!, > > Michael > > > I did not quite understand what Gene was saying myself, so perhaps he > could clarify? > > Regarding MX Linux (or any other Debian type of system), don't you > *always* have that option of preserving your home folder? I've tried > AntiX (forget how it's related to your MX), and looked into MX Linux, > but I don't see any appreciable difference when it comes to > "preserving the home folder". > In Debian or Devuan or something similar, pick "expert install" from > the menu choices, don't choose "guided installation", define the > size and type of your own partitions, and that ought to do it. > > Not disputing your advice, Michael; but as I said, you can already > preserve your home folder in Debian or Devuan or Ubuntu or pretty > much any other Linux distro that I've tried. If this is not the case, > we need Gene to clarify. What I'm saying is that the installer can find and assemble the raid10 I use for home, no problem, but it refuses to proceed with the install if it isn't commanded to format it, wipeing out around 50 gigs of data that I recovered from amanda backups without amanda help cuz amanda won't build on bullseye. Perl and python are both too new. So I'm reduced to gzip, dd and tar. > Like yourself (that is, Michael), reinstallation takes me about 30 > minutes, then getting TDE installed is another hour or two at most. > So I'm guessing a couple hours, tops. And I haven't wiped out my home > folder since about 2006, but just copied over the relevant parts, or > saved the whole thing to a separate hard drive. > > If Gene keeps losing all his data, then has to go through recovery: > that just doesn't sound right. > > Bill +10 or so Bill. Take care and stay well. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
