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golinux

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## Preparing to move to wheezy . . . finally

Sun Jan 05, 2014 7:29 pm

I finally sorted out my media workflow thanks to stevepusser and the Mepis repos. There's some discussion in this thread. So I'm finally ready to move this puppy to my production machine.
I downloaded the latest from github. snapshot versions are 9.0.9-4 and installer versions are 9.0.8-3. Are these the ones I should upgrade to? Have they addressed the issue of pre-formatted partitions (or will they be overwritten - used to be a problem)? And will the installer allow me to set up a separate /home partition? Finding that info in the long thread is a bit like the proverbial needle in a haystack.
Once that's accomplished, I'm going to take on setting up either a usb flash drive with persistence or an external harddrive for a friend who has both xp and win 7 on his machine. Want to give him Debian to play with but don't want to touch his windoze disks.
How many feet of snow are you under fsmithred? It's sunny and 50 degrees here but I'm still bitching about the cold.
fsmithred

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## Re: Preparing to move to wheezy . . . finally

Mon Jan 06, 2014 3:44 am

Take the beta installer packages from the testing folder. Get the latest refracta2usb there, too. (The older version at sf won't make a persistent partition for you - the newer ones wil.)
http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/files/Testing/
Yes, you can make a separate /home partition. That option has been there since before it was called refractainstaller. Select expert install. You'll get a checklist. Ignore anything that you don't want or don't understand. #10 on that list is "Do not format filesystems"
I think we only got around 8 inches here. But then the temp dropped below 0F. (There's no icy-blue smiley.) Right now, I think it's raining. Feels like a heat wave at 33.
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