ugrading from 10.2 to 10.3

[scrarfussi]

i have several partitions on my pc 11gig for mandriva 100gig for windows xp 10 gig for opensuse10.2 /root and 64gig for /home i cant remembrer the swap space now i wanna do a clean install of 10.3 without loosing my info in /home partition can someone please tell me me how to go about doing this thank you

[gogalthorp]

If you do not have a seperate partition for you home directory the only thing you can do is back up home to some other partition or CD or somewhere else. A new install will reformat the root partition if your home is on that partition it goes too.

If you have a separate home partition- when you install at the point of the partitioning manually change the scheme to not reformat the home partition and mount it as /home

[scrarfussi]

well my /home is on a separate partitition now when i load 10.3 disk everything goes well until i get to partitioning where it offers me to partion the /root partition and the /home partion what i wanna jnow is how do i prevent it from formatting the /home partition there is just no option for this thanx

[Jonathan183]

well my /home is on a separate partitition now when i load 10.3 disk everything goes well until i get to partitioning where it offers me to partion the /root partition and the /home partion what i wanna jnow is how do i prevent it from formatting the /home partition there is just no option for this thanx

I thought it was an option in custom partition setup.

[gogalthorp]

You can select to manually change the partitioning when you get to the part where the installer presents it's partitioning scheme.

Just tell it what partitions you want to reformat and the mount point you want it to be and which you want to not reformat and what the mount point will be.

Be sure to specify your mount points.

In this case it would be /home

root would be /

[scrarfussi]

Ok well i'm kinda still in the learning process the thing is HOW do i tell the installer not too format the /home partition i've gone into expert mode custom mode i don't see any option to select don't format

[Jonathan183]

Ok well i'm kinda still in the learning process the thing is HOW do i tell the installer not too format the /home partition i've gone into expert mode custom mode i don't see any option to select don't format

During install select partitioning->create custom partition setup->custom partitioning (for experts) ... you will then get a list of partitions on your hard disc(s) ...
Select the partition you want to be root and click edit
then set mount point to / and make sure format is selected
Now select the partition you want to be your home partition and click edit
set mount point to /home and ensure format is not selected
Select swap partition and set mount point to swap ...
you should then be able to accept the partition setup.

If you are not sure which partition is your home partition in 10.2 then abort the installation, reboot in 10.2, in a terminal execute mount command ... you will find one line of the output something like ...
/dev/hda8 on /home type ext3 (rw)

Post back if you need more help