Re: Useful in the installer

2025-08-26 Thread Keith Bainbridge
-- On 27 August 2025 4:18:25 am AEST, Michael Paoli wrote: >On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM Van Snyder wrote: >> I keep my /home directory in a partition separate from root, not in a >> directory in root. This makes it easier to install a new OS. >> Just to make sure the installer doesn't

Re: Useful in the installer

2025-08-26 Thread Michael Paoli
On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM Van Snyder wrote: > I keep my /home directory in a partition separate from root, not in a > directory in root. This makes it easier to install a new OS. > Just to make sure the installer doesn't damage /home/me, and to make it > obvious it won't, if /home/* isn't

Re: Useful in the installer

2025-08-26 Thread Michael Paoli
On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM Darac Marjal wrote: > The "enterprise" solution here is FreeIPA. FreeIPA works as a central server > for one or more "domains" to which users belong. After setting up FreeIPA, an > administrator would join new computers (by which we might mean physically > new, o

Re: Useful in the installer

2025-08-24 Thread Van Snyder
On Sun, 2025-08-24 at 22:49 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On 24/08/2025 22:34, David Christensen wrote: > > > On 8/24/25 13:14, Van Snyder wrote: > > > > > I keep my /home directory in a partition separate from root, not > > > in a > > > directory in root. This makes it easier to install a new

Re: Useful in the installer

2025-08-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On 24/08/2025 22:34, David Christensen wrote: On 8/24/25 13:14, Van Snyder wrote: I keep my /home directory in a partition separate from root, not in a directory in root. This makes it easier to install a new OS. When I install Debian, it asks me for the name of a user. I never had the courag

Re: Useful in the installer

2025-08-24 Thread Van Snyder
On Sun, 2025-08-24 at 14:09 -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 22:20:01 +0200 Van Snyder > > wrote: > >  > I keep my /home directory in a partition separate from root, not > in >  > a directory in root. This makes it easier to install a new OS. >  > >  > When I install Debian, it

Re: Useful in the installer

2025-08-24 Thread David Christensen
On 8/24/25 13:14, Van Snyder wrote: I keep my /home directory in a partition separate from root, not in a directory in root. This makes it easier to install a new OS. When I install Debian, it asks me for the name of a user. I never had the courage to put my own name and uname into that page, f

Re: Useful in the installer

2025-08-24 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 22:20:01 +0200 Van Snyder wrote: > I keep my /home directory in a partition separate from root, not in > a directory in root. This makes it easier to install a new OS. > > When I install Debian, it asks me for the name of a user. > > I never had the courage to put my own nam

Useful in the installer

2025-08-24 Thread Van Snyder
I keep my /home directory in a partition separate from root, not in a directory in root. This makes it easier to install a new OS. When I install Debian, it asks me for the name of a user. I never had the courage to put my own name and uname into that page, fearing it might damage my home directo