On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:39:21PM -0600, Alex Esplin wrote: > Hey all, > > After an unpleasant experience with an Ubuntu upgrade yesterday I'm > ready to switch back to something a little more user-configurable. > This is on my work box, so as much as I like Gentoo, I'd rather not > have to play the > "build-everything-from-source-every-time-anything-is-upgraded" game, > and a few people have suggested Arch, so Arch it is. > > My question is how to install it without having it stomp on my /home > which is on its own partition. I plan on backing up /home, but > there's a _lot_ of my work on there that I'd be _very_ upset if it got > lost. > > So what's the best plan? Ignore /dev/sda3 for the installation and > slip it in /etc/fstab after I'm done? Or is there a better way?
That's basically what I have done in similar situations. Let the installation build a user account for you on the root partition. Then move what it creates somewhere else, then add your partition to /etc/fstab. That way you can copy or move anything it creates for you to your partition. You may have to adjust UIDs and GIDs on the partition. "chown -r" is your friend. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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