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Old 11-20-2006, 04:12 AM   #1
ahmed gamal
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updata to new slack

hi every body
i have slack 10.2
i want to updata to the new slack
but i have my programs on /home
and i don't want to lose them
can any body help???
 
Old 11-20-2006, 04:41 AM   #2
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You won't lose anything on /home by just updating the system.
 
Old 11-20-2006, 04:53 AM   #3
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Something tells me he wants to do a fresh install and only has a / partition.

Is this the case?
 
Old 11-20-2006, 01:11 PM   #4
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Something tells me he wants to do a fresh install and only has a / partition.

Is this the case?
yes that's what i want to say
 
Old 11-21-2006, 12:49 PM   #5
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In that case you could tell it not to format / during the Slackware 11 install, but it would be better to just copy everything to a removable device and then put it back on when the install is done.

And next time, put /home on it's own partition.
 
Old 11-21-2006, 05:25 PM   #6
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There should be no need to reinstall everything. I did an upgrade from 10.2 to 11.0 and everything went very well. Just make sure you follow the instructions in UPGRADE.TXT and CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT closely and you should be fine.
 
  


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