[mdlug] Completely replacing Windows XP Pro with Linux!

[rstaff]

Moving or copying the /home directory is way too technical and way too 
much work for me.
It did not work for me!  And I was following Googled instructions!
See << comments >> below for solution that did work for me.

On 07/19/2014 01:32 AM, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> rstaff wrote:
>> I went ahead, used GParted to format the whole 2nd drive for Linux as 
>> an ext4 partition.
>> I then copied the /home directory and its contents (i.e., "/ricky") 
>> to disk #2.
>> I went through several editing sessions with the /etc/fstab file.
>> With every reboot, Linux Mint failed to find "/home/ricky
>
> everytihng that was in your home directory is now in /home
>
> you should make a home directory, /home/ricky
> and then move all of the contents of /home (except for ricky) into ricky

> << Huh? WTF! >>

> << Read Below!  Apparently the second drive has to be formatted 
> outside of the installer. >>

>> I gave up.
>> Now going through a reinstall of Linux Mint 17.
>> This time, the Linux Mint installer recognized the second drive as 
>> sdb1 and appears to have allowed
>> /home to be applied as a mount point.
>> Installation still running, will provide update when done.
>> Thanks,
>> Rick Staff
>>
>> On 07/17/2014 11:23 PM, Harry Burleson wrote:
>>>> During a Linux Mint 17 install, I keep getting an error that says
>>>> "/home" is outside the allowed space.
>>>> Huh???
>>> I have not encountered this error but I suspect the installer is 
>>> complaining
>>> because you are trying to install your Linux system across two disk 
>>> drives.
>>>
>>> If you want to use two drives try installing root and home 
>>> partitions on disk
>>> #1 . Then after you have a working Linux system create only a file 
>>> system (use
>>> GParted) on disk #2. Create a mount directory and mount the file 
>>> system on disk
>>> #2 to the mount directory. You will need to edit /etc/fstab . If you 
>>> want to
>>> expand the size of /home you can get creative with symbolic links.
>>>
>>> As an alternative, after a successful installation on disk #1, you 
>>> can use a
>>> live distro: Pmagic, Ubuntu, Knoppix, etc. Then with Gparted move 
>>> the /home
>>> partition to disk #2 and edit /etc/fstab .
>>>
>>> Harry