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Topic: I want to change but cant trust my install yet., repeaded installs

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robertbas

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Posted: Feb. 16 2006,04:49

I want to change but cant trust my install yet...

When I do a first hd-install on a fresh disk everything fine...
When I do a second re-install everything screws up???

This has occured across 2 desktops and a laptop...

I just do 'newbie' installs
On a fresh disk, first install's boot i dont enter anything at the linux boot & evthing is ok...
On the now 'stale' disk on the second install or re-install nothing sticks

I'd like to run only this os from one drive, with a big home directory but cant get past a reliable re-install yet p;ease help.....

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Compaq Armada 7800 PII 366 8gHd 128ram, 4MBpcivid-Runs really fast on proper partitions. No cdrom/no USBbios/no dos pcmcia booter.
set-up; USB & bootfloppyUSB.1.img - Frugal Persist on small hda1,swap=hda2, mydsl=hda3,home=hda4,restore=hda4
No Win/dos parts. not toram/dma-ing yet
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doobit

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Posted: Feb. 16 2006,15:18

I don't understand why you need to reinstall to begin with, but....
If you are installing using the install script from the desktop after booting with the live CD, then you pick the choice for new install, not upgrade. That way your partition will be reformatted. Another alternative is to repartition and reformat the partitions using cfdisk, or qparted, then install. That will make it a clean install and there will be no excuse for any type of corruption to occur.

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robertbas

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Posted: Feb. 17 2006,03:48

many thankfs dfor your help but I should have been clearer...

I have XP on vfat hda1, linux hda2, swap hda3 and sparelinux hda4 they are extfs2

I want to be able to re-install at will incase i stuff something up
I want to be able to re-install at will without cfdisking
i dont mind mke2fs hda2& mkswap hda3
I will have data on hda4 but not as home or persistant
I will have data on hda4 during reinstall

>>quote<<"Another alternative is to repartition and reformat the partitions using cfdisk, or qparted, then install. That will make it a clean install and there will be no excuse for any type of corruption to occur">>/quote<<

Yeop all of abpve is what i hav to do but why cant i just mke2fs hda2&3 rather than cfdisking - it ruins my xp install.

I have never got a upgrade option doing the many deskyop/menu installs. With frugal I get option but I dont frugal...

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Compaq Armada 7800 PII 366 8gHd 128ram, 4MBpcivid-Runs really fast on proper partitions. No cdrom/no USBbios/no dos pcmcia booter.
set-up; USB & bootfloppyUSB.1.img - Frugal Persist on small hda1,swap=hda2, mydsl=hda3,home=hda4,restore=hda4
No Win/dos parts. not toram/dma-ing yet
run DSL, RH fine

doobit

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Posted: Feb. 17 2006,17:58

It shouldn't touch XP. Qparted can shrink the NTFS partition to leave you with free space to make a Linux partition on. You use mke2fs to format the Linux partiion.

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