Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:37:10 -0500 From: Peter Schwenk <schwenk@math.udel.edu> To: Bryan Smith <bryan@2xcorp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new install Message-ID: <38B3FEA5.6DA5AD53@math.udel.edu> References: <000801bf7e11$4fe86f80$21bf578a@taliesin>
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During the install (I always do Novice, but it shouldn't matter), don't reslice the drive (just quit out of the slicing program) and when you are given the opportunity to create/modify partitions within your FreeBSD slice, you can toggle off newfs for your /home partition. Bryan Smith wrote: > I'm looking at doing a clean install of my FreeBSD box (moving from > 3.2-Release to 3.4-Release) and I'd like to keep my /home partition > intact, but I don't remember anywhere in the install as to which > partition to specify when formatting. As I remember, it just > formatted them all. Is that just part of the novice install? What > route should I take with this? Thanks -- PETER SCHWENK | UNIX System Administrator Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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