Upgrading from Redhat to Debian, want to preserve home dirs, etc.
I have an old Redhat 6.2 system with kernel 2.2.14 on it from the year
2000. I am bringing it out of retirement and am switching to Debian. I
need some advice. The system has two IDE hard drives on it configured
like so:
/dev/hda3 1.4G 923M 484M 66% /
/dev/hda1 23M 3.4M 19M 15% /boot
/dev/hda4 17G 14G 3.7G 79% /home
/dev/hdc2 19G 11G 7.6G 60% /extra
I don't care about dual-booting, but I want to preserve the existing
directories on /dev/hda for the obvious reasons.... home directories
has all my stuff in it and usr dirs has a lot of usr/local stuff, etc.
So I would like to install Debian on /dev/hdc, now known as the /extra
drive, and mount hda to access home, etc. I don't care about wiping
out the contents of /dev/hdc2 (/extra) because it was just a backup
drive anyway. Because I have not ever used the Debian install program
and I understand it's not as easy to use as Redhat's (sorry, don't
mean to demean Debian)... I would appreciate some advice in advance so
I don't screw things up.
If you could kindly email your reply as well, that would be great. And
thanks in advance for any thoughts.
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