how to save /home during reinstall

2012-12-27 Thread lilit-aibolit
Hello misc. I have a /home at old system and I want to install new one from scratch. But I need to save all data in /home without moving it out of box. As I understood I need to stop at this point: Use (W)hole disk or (E)dit the MBR? [whole] and select Edit instead of Whole (which erase all

Re: how to save /home during reinstall

2012-12-27 Thread Wesley
Le 2012-12-27 14:15, lilit-aibolit a écrit : Hello misc. I have a /home at old system and I want to install new one from scratch. But I need to save all data in /home without moving it out of box. As I understood I need to stop at this point: Use (W)hole disk or (E)dit the MBR? [whole] At

Re: how to save /home during reinstall

2012-12-27 Thread lilit-aibolit
On 12/27/2012 12:29 PM, Wesley wrote: Le 2012-12-27 14:15, lilit-aibolit a écrit : Hello misc. I have a /home at old system and I want to install new one from scratch. But I need to save all data in /home without moving it out of box. As I understood I need to stop at this point: Use (W)hole

Re: how to save /home during reinstall

2012-12-27 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/27/12 05:57, lilit-aibolit wrote: On 12/27/2012 12:29 PM, Wesley wrote: Le 2012-12-27 14:15, lilit-aibolit a écrit : Hello misc. I have a /home at old system and I want to install new one from scratch. But I need to save all data in /home without moving it out of box. As I

Re: how to save /home during reinstall

2012-12-27 Thread lilit-aibolit
On 12/27/2012 02:24 PM, Nick Holland wrote: On 12/27/12 05:57, lilit-aibolit wrote: On 12/27/2012 12:29 PM, Wesley wrote: Le 2012-12-27 14:15, lilit-aibolit a écrit : Hello misc. I have a /home at old system and I want to install new one from scratch. But I need to save all data in /home

Re: how to save /home during reinstall

2012-12-27 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/27/2012 07:48 AM, lilit-aibolit wrote: On 12/27/2012 02:24 PM, Nick Holland wrote: On 12/27/12 05:57, lilit-aibolit wrote: On 12/27/2012 12:29 PM, Wesley wrote: Le 2012-12-27 14:15, lilit-aibolit a écrit : Hello misc. I have a /home at old system and I want to install new one from

Re: how to save /home during reinstall

2012-12-27 Thread Chris Bennett
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 07:24:34AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: As for your question... Before reinstalling, make note of where all your partitions are mounted currently. For a reinstall, the fdisk prompt will include Existing OpenBSD partition or something along those lines...you will