Yellowdog installer just blew away my disk...

[John T Nelson]

Not so easy in YellowDog.  There is no "upgrade" path from the YDL 
installer disk and it gave me many errors trying to install on a 
partition with an existing YDL installation.  I decided to just format 
the old partition but that bashed the disk.

YDL needs an upgrade path, if only to recover old package information.

-- John


Nathan A. McQuillen wrote:

>Um...
>
>Why on earth would you need to use a partition editor for what is
>essentially a monster package upgrade? I haven't seen the 2.2 graphical
>installer but isn't there a way to tell it to use your existing partition
>map and mount points, instead of pretending like you're starting from
>scratch? Oh well.
>
>I think, if you can remember how your old partition map looked (I always
>print one out with pdisk before messing around) and you haven't formatted
>anything, you can create a new partition map with the old specs and that
>should recover your partitions...  might be dead wrong here but I /think/
>I've done this at times.
>  
>