I do not know if this works anymore, but when I did L-M 6.0, I was able to
first remove any partitions with disk druid, then go back to the previous
screen - at which point disk druid would ask if I wanted to write the
information to the dosk, and I said yes, then went forward again into disk
Although I now have /home on a separate partition, I previously upgraded
from 6.0 to 6.1 when I had just one big / partition (and, of course, a swap
partition). /home was retained with no problems whatsoever.
--On Monday, November 01, 1999, 10:59 PM -0500 John Aldrich
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On Mon, 01 Nov 1999,Karen M. Heiby wrote:
| What about swap space? Also, you need to leave a bit of
| room for "overhead." Linux reserves a few k of each meg for
| "bad spots" which may crop up later and uses that to fix
| itself as needed. I'm *guessing* you didn't tell Linux to
|
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote:
I am the original querant and I said that *one* time (don't confuse all the
other things I've been doing with this isolated incident I mentioned) I tried a
reinstall telling Mandrake *not* to format my hda2 drive (linux native) but it
did anyway and I lost my
On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote:
Hi,
I followed the Ebooks instructions for partitioning in Disk Druid so I
could make a separate partition for /home.
I chose my native partition which was 5GB and deleted it, and tried
adding two partitions--one 2GB, one 1.5GB (allowing for lots of extra
What about swap space? Also, you need to leave a bit of
room for "overhead." Linux reserves a few k of each meg for
"bad spots" which may crop up later and uses that to fix
itself as needed. I'm *guessing* you didn't tell Linux to
make the /home on an "extended" partition, did you???
On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote:
Of course, I know about having to have a swap partition and I'm not having a
problem with that. It's only 128Mb.
I deleted a 5GB partition and tried to make one 2 GB and
one 1.5 GB partition which only totals 3.5GB. That would leave 1.5GB for Linux
to
On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote:
And the problem with that is? All my Linux partitions lie within and
extended partition, which has caused absolutely no problem with SuSE 6.2,
or Mandrake 6.0/6.1. Furthermore MDK 6.1 is an upgrade, as opposed to a
fresh install.
Were you the original
