On Thursday 30 September 2004 14:08, Merlin Zener wrote: > /dev/hda1 ntfs 7.8GB /mnt/nt 889.3MB 88.9% > /dev/hda5 vfat 22.6GB /mnt/windows 3.2GB 86% > /dev/hda6 ext3 980.5MB / 798.8MB 18.5% > /dev/hda8 ext3 3.8GB /usr 2.3GB 40.2% > /dev/hda9 ext3 2.7GB /home 730.1MB 73.8% > /dev/hdc1 auto 74.5GB /mnt/hd 17.6GB 76.4% > /dev/sda1 auto N/A /mnt/removable 0B N/A > > Is this the info you wanted?
Yep, that's it:) If there's still some unused space on your disk you could use that for a parallel install, but prolly there isn't. Doing a new install will require a reformatting of / and /usr respectively /dev/hda6 and /usr, all the others can be left as they are. During the install diskdrake will find them and offer to do this for you....maybe you'll have to add the /usr partition yourself but that's a fairly easy task. Your windows partition (if this is C:\) is vfat, so no probs there:) It'll still boot fine after the install. In keeping your /home partition as is all your configuration files will be retained BUT!! especially KDE has evolved since 9.0 and will most certainly crash on you. Rename the (hidden) .kde directory to something else (so you'll be able to recognize it again later) so you'll be able to get most of your old settings back. The're all in there (at least the KDE connected ones) as *.rc files. By renaming .kde in your home directory KDE will create new config files on first start-up after which you can put back the ones important to you, one by one. Another option is to start up for the first time in a windowmanager (say icewm or whatever) you normally don't use and edit the config files from there. Either way it's best to NOT opt for the "autologin option" for the first boot as you're not sure it won't crash. This is easily reconfigured at a later stage, if wanted. Note!: Different to the 9.0 install, take a good look at the "sumnary" screen and check if ll the configurations are OK..........don't take for granted that they are! In that respect it might be wise totake a note of your existing network and XFree settings. Especially if you've got special videocard settings or so, it might wise to make a copy of /etc/X11/XF86Config or /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (whichever you're using) to your home directory as a reference. -- Good luck, HarM
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