[colug-432] Install new version at / ?

[Judd Montgomery]

On 06/09/2014 08:32 PM, Thomas Cranston wrote:
> I have an 80GB drive that is partitioned:
> /dev/sda1 /         ext4
> /dev/sda4/home  ext4
> dev/sda2/tmp      ext4
>
> It has Linuxmint 14 on it now. I will be installing Linuxmint17. My
> understanding is that by having a seperate /dev/home, I can install
> another linux distro while keeping my /dev/home and hopefully /dev/tmp.
>
> I am not sure how to do this. Will the installer guide me thru what I
> want to do?

If I understand what you want to do... Choose to do a custom 
partitioning.  Choose to format /dev/sda1 and use as /.  Choose to use 
/dev/sda4 as /home and do not format.  Choose to use /dev/sda2 and do 
not format (why not format, /tmp is erased at boot time in the init 
scripts?).  I think you meant you just wanted to keep the /tmp 
(/dev/sda2) partition as /tmp.

Do you really have /home mounted under a /home directory on the sda4 
device?  Is /tmp mounted under a /tmp directory on /dev/sda2?  I'm 
assuming not because this would be strange.

As someone else suggested you could upgrade.  Upgrading may give you 
less than optimal results as your desktop config and settings in 
/home/${USER} may not work 100%.

You'll get the same problem with a new install and using the old /home 
mount.  What I do in either case is mv my /home/${USER} to 
/home/${USER}/OLD to get it out of the way, do an install or upgrade, 
configure the desktop and selectively move things back to my home 
directory from OLD.  I hope that wasn't too hard to follow.

Judd