Tom,
> some new discoveries. Basically, the idea is to put a second hard drive, or
> better yet, a raid array inside the box, and store your data on that. If you
> ever have to reinstall the e-smith server, you're not going to wipe out your
> data; you'll just remount your data drive(s) on the boot drive's directory tree.
One MAJOR caution - the e-smith installation process wipes
**ALL ATTACHED** hard drives during the install. (Hence the big warning
on http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/4.1/installingsoft.html )
The answer, of course, is to have that second disk drive in there, copy
the data to it, etc., and then *physically disconnect* the hard drive
from the disk controller (just pull the cable) before you do the
reinstall. After the software is reinstalled, you shut down the box,
reconnect the hard drive, and power it back up.
The key is that you have to *remember* to disconnect the drive...
Regards,
Dan
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