28 Feb
2022
28 Feb
'22
1:21 a.m.
On Sunday, February 27, 2022 4:26:24 PM EST William Morder via tde-users
wrote:
and to not have to reformat the HD. My last install took a
clarify?
On Sunday 27 February 2022 13:14:08 Michael wrote:
> On Sunday 27 February 2022 02:23:21 pm gene heskett wrote:
>
> > Surely whats been installed should be removable without destroying
> > the
rest of the system? But that approach isn't on the menu.
Hi Gene,
Okay, I have not read this whole thread, so if I've misunderstood so
be it…
>
>
> MX Linux (Debian derivative) has options during install to ‘preserve
> home’ total of about
30 minutes and I did not have to reconfigure every
TDE package to get them back to how I like them. Between the two
options I probably saved 100 hours of ‘work.’
HTH, if not best anyways!,
Michael
I did not quite understand what Gene was saying myself, so perhaps he
could
Regarding MX Linux (or any other Debian type of system), don't you
*always*
have that option of preserving your home folder? I've tried
AntiX (forget how it's related to your MX), and
looked into MX Linux,
but I don't see any appreciable difference when it comes to
"preserving the home folder".
In Debian or Devuan or something similar, pick "expert install" from
the menu
choices, don't choose "guided installation", define the
size and type of your own partitions, and that ought
to do it.
Not disputing your advice, Michael; but as I said, you can already
preserve
your home folder in Debian or Devuan or Ubuntu or pretty
much any other Linux distro that I've tried. If
this is not the case,
we need Gene to clarify.
What I'm saying is that the installer can find and assemble the raid10 I
use for home, no problem, but it refuses to proceed with the install if
it isn't commanded to format it, wipeing out around 50 gigs of data that
I recovered from amanda backups without amanda help cuz amanda won't
build on bullseye. Perl and python are both too new. So I'm reduced to
gzip, dd and tar.
Like yourself (that is, Michael), reinstallation takes
me about 30
minutes, then getting TDE installed is another hour or two at most.
So I'm guessing a couple hours, tops. And I haven't wiped out my home
folder since about 2006, but just copied over the relevant parts, or
saved the whole thing to a separate hard drive.
If Gene keeps losing all his data, then has to go through recovery:
that just doesn't sound right.
Bill
+10 or so Bill. Take care and stay well.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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