HELP (again)

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
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From: Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com>
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Date: Thursday, April 12, 2001 2:36 PM
Subject: RE: HELP (again)


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>> -----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)
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>> 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 <sp?> 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
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>Yes, you can go thru without reformatting. Upgrade will not delete any
>existing partitions.
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>HOWEVER (assuming that you prefer new install to an 'upgrade')
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>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
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