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Old 11-26-2003, 01:27 PM   #1
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Installation Question involving /home partition

If I have a home directory on a seperate partition, should any installation touch it?
 
Old 11-26-2003, 01:35 PM   #2
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You can share you partition between other OSs that support that filesystem but make sure you don't format it during the install.
 
Old 11-26-2003, 01:36 PM   #3
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It shouldn't, no. But I'd still read up on the documentation for the installation program/process carefully for starting.

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Old 11-26-2003, 01:38 PM   #4
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Five minutes and I get a reply. Great. I just don't want mandrake 9.2 killing my /home directory.
 
  


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