Re: [newbie] mounting /home on another disk

2003-08-15 Thread Curt Tresenriter
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:49:47 +0100
Michael Lothian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

|All you need to do when installing amndrake from scratch is do 
|Configure Manually
|
|Create the partitions you want on hda making them the size you want and 
|creating /home on hdd
|
|It's quite clever and work it all out for its self.
|
|Mike
|
|Curt Tresenriter wrote:
|
|I want to mount the /home partition on hda (mdk 9.1)  from my mdk 9.0 installation 
on hdd.
|
|Is it simply a matter of making a mount point for hda6 and naming it something other 
than /home to avoid confusing 9.0?
|Or am I on the wrong track altogether?

I could have been more clear.
Both are installed but at the moment I cannot boot 9.1 (I'm going to work on that...) 
but in the meantime, I want to 
gain access to my /home partition on the hda disk (9.1)  while in 9.0 (on the hdd disk)

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Re: [newbie] mounting /home on another disk

2003-08-15 Thread Richard Urwin
On Friday 15 Aug 2003 1:45 pm, Curt Tresenriter wrote:
 I want to mount the /home partition on hda (mdk 9.1)  from my mdk 9.0
 installation on hdd.

 Is it simply a matter of making a mount point for hda6 and naming it
 something other than /home to avoid confusing 9.0?

Yes

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Re: [newbie] mounting /home on another disk

2003-08-15 Thread Curt Tresenriter
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:52:47 +0100
Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

|On Friday 15 Aug 2003 1:45 pm, Curt Tresenriter wrote:
| I want to mount the /home partition on hda (mdk 9.1)  from my mdk 9.0
| installation on hdd.
|
| Is it simply a matter of making a mount point for hda6 and naming it
| something other than /home to avoid confusing 9.0?
|
|Yes
|
|-- 
|Richard Urwin

Thanks Richard... It's nice being told you're right especially when you are.

Curt

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Re: [newbie] mounting /home on another disk

2003-08-15 Thread Michael Lothian
Sorry

Then try mounting /dev/hda#  where # is the number that home was on

Mike

Curt Tresenriter wrote:

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:49:47 +0100
Michael Lothian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|All you need to do when installing amndrake from scratch is do 
|Configure Manually
|
|Create the partitions you want on hda making them the size you want and 
|creating /home on hdd
|
|It's quite clever and work it all out for its self.
|
|Mike
|
|Curt Tresenriter wrote:
|
|I want to mount the /home partition on hda (mdk 9.1)  from my mdk 9.0 installation on hdd.
|
|Is it simply a matter of making a mount point for hda6 and naming it something other than /home to avoid confusing 9.0?
|Or am I on the wrong track altogether?

I could have been more clear.
Both are installed but at the moment I cannot boot 9.1 (I'm going to work on that...) but in the meantime, I want to 
gain access to my /home partition on the hda disk (9.1)  while in 9.0 (on the hdd disk)

 



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