[mdlug] Completely replacing Windows XP Pro with Linux!

[Aaron Kulkis]

rstaff wrote:
> 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.
>

Ok.  Since you are obviously unfamiliar with the process, why did you choose to
do this at home, alone, rather than bringing in the machine and doing your install
during an MDLUG meeting when we could help you get this done right.



> 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
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