Install Fedora 13 from Hard Drive

JD jd1008 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 11 22:50:21 UTC 2010


  On 07/11/2010 02:44 PM, H. S. wrote:
> On 07/11/2010 03:46 PM, JD wrote:
>>     On 07/11/2010 12:03 PM, Henry Wyatt wrote:
>>> Need link or instructions on how to install from HDD.
>>>
> <SNIP>
>> I had tried to do "upgrade" so that I would not lose my home dir.
> And this is one of the main reasons I always keep my home directory on a
> separate partition. During the installation I do not touch that
> partition at all  (except for specifying the mount point) and create my
> users in the same order as they were created in the original install (to
> have the same uid's). The advice to be cautious and have a backup of
> home still holds though.

Right. I simply wanted to remind Henry Wyatt of the danger of losing 
important files.

I have had my home dir on another drive for more than 5 years.




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