Thanks everyone, I called Hawke and he walked me though mounting the partitions inside of the rescure shell. From that I was able to relable each partition and I'm going though the upgrade right now. (cross ur fingers). Thanks again Hawke Carl Parrish -----Original Message----- From: Craig White To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us Date: Thursday, April 12, 2001 2:36 PM Subject: RE: HELP (again) > > >----:----|----:----|----:----|----:----|----:----|----:----| >- Craig White - PO Box 8634 - Scottsdale, Arizona - 85252 >- e-mail address ................ - CraigWhite@AzApple.com >- world wide web address ........ - http://www.AzApple.com >- e-mail my pager address ....... - 6023779752@airtouch.net >- cellular phone ................ - (602) 377-9752 >- voice/facsimile ............... - (480) 945-8445 >----:----|----:----|----:----|----:----|----:----|----:----| > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Carl >> Parrish >> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 12:37 PM >> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> Subject: Re: HELP (again) >> >> >> Yes I updated the motherboard. If I do an upgrade will it delete my >> partitions. Also the box was running RHat 6.2 and the only disk I can seem >> to find is RHAT 7.0 since the new motherboard has USB connections >> I kind of >> want to switch to 7.0 anyways but when I get to diskduird non of my >> partitions are labled (even though I *know* I named them). Can I just go >> though without formating any of my partitions? >> >> Carl sonotasystemadmin Parrish >> >-------- >Yes, you can go thru without reformatting. Upgrade will not delete any >existing partitions. > >HOWEVER (assuming that you prefer new install to an 'upgrade') > >1 - reformatting ensures that junk isn't left over. >2 - if you can normally boot to linux - do so, type df and note which path >belongs to each partition so it will be easy to decide which ones you can >reformat - i.e. /home, /var & /opt - if they are separate partitions, you >might skip the reformatting to presever the data. > >Craig > >________________________________________________ >See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss