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Sorry about that hazy title.
I've this server and the provider provides a rescue image which you enable from the control panel and restart your server, it'll boot via a small network image which is basically a Debian.
The situation I'm in right now is that I had this server for a little over a year now with a running Debian, and I sat up my 2 drives to form a RAID 0.
things happened and I missed up my kernel, it got deleted along other things, now all I can boot is this rescue image.
after booting this rescue image my raid was able to get assembled and now I can find my raid devices
/dev/md
/dev/md0 <-- swap
/dev/md1 <-- /boot
/dev/md2 <-- /
/dev/md3 <-- /home
I was able to mount them, read and right, what I'm thinking right now is, how can I go around installing archlinux without losing my /home partition, I've installed Archlinux multiple times before and I'm familiar with it, but I've never done it on a server with this kind of configuration and situation.
I'm looking at the installation guide and not sure what to do next.
Last edited by jasonwryan (2016-05-29 01:57:29)
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … ting_Linux
As for keeping your home - if you want to keep it, just keep it, I don't see how that's a question.
"UNIX is simple and coherent" - Dennis Ritchie; "GNU's Not Unix" - Richard Stallman
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Install Arch from a chroot like in the wiki. When you come to the part where you have to make your filesystems, only format the root partition. You can just mount your /home partition and you will keep your data.
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I tried to do it, but I couldn't boot my OS afterwards, I think because of how my RAID is arranged, I had to back my data up and re-parition the whole thing.
Thank you guys
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