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hd install on existing linux box
Hello,
I have an existing linux box that I want to install Knoppix onto. Does knx-hdinstall wipe the partitions it installs into?
Specifically, I have an existing redhat box with /home part of the / filesystem. i.e., one filesystem to rule them all. I don't want my home directories to be wiped out, but I don't care about things in /bin, /usr, /etc, and so on.
If I boot knoppix, mount my current hard disk, and rm -rf everything except /home, will knx-hdinstall wipe out my /home anyway?
Thanks.
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Forgot this bit: I also have a windows installation for dual boot (don't worry, I only use it a few times a year) So my partition table looks like this:
/dev/hda1 windows (fat32)
/dev/hda2 /boot (ext3)
/dev/hda3 swap
/dev/hda5 / (ext3)
I don't want hda1 touched. I don't want /home in hda5 touched. Can knx-hdinstall or knoppix-installer do this?
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Originally Posted by
bactram
I don't want hda1 touched. I don't want /home in hda5 touched.
Can knx-hdinstall or knoppix-installer do this?
knx-hdinstall cannot but knoppix-installer should.
I think you need to run it, save the config, quit, edit the .knofig file where
you can instruct it to use several partitiions instead of lumping everything
under / (follow the comments in the file itself). Then restart the install script
with this edited config.
Caveat: that's my understanding but I have never actually tried this myself.
Not the multl-partitions install, I mean; the script itself worked fine on one
4Gb root partition, and offers nice enhancements over knx-hdinstall.
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