On Thu, November 6, 2014 10:02, Tony Molloy wrote: > Hi James, > > From an old email of mine to the list. > >> > >> Hi Tony >> >> Did you receive an answer to your question ? I didn't see anything >> on the list ! I'm interested too. >> >> Thank you > > > No but I sorted it out myself. I just took a chance, it was on a test > server anyway ;-) > > In the disk partitioning screen you will see the old 6.5 installation. > Clicking on it will bring up the existing 6.5 partitions. Then select > each of the existing partitions and a configuration menu comes up which > allows you to reformat the partition if required. So just don't > reformat the partitions you want to keep .They then become part of the > new 7.0 installation. > > Hope this helps. > That is exactly what I ended up doing. It just seems a little odd to me to require that amount of manual effort when one wants to reuse the entire disk for a fresh install. I seem to recall that in 6.5 one could simply tell the installer to do exactly that. In any case, somehow I experienced the situation that, even though I had 'deleted' each of the old mount points, the CentOS-7 installer would not reuse the original boot partition space but instead created a new one. I am not sure what was going on or what I did that caused this. In the end I rebooted from the liveCD and used the disk utility to manually remove all of the partitions on the HDD and then re-installed from the minimal DVD. That seems to have returned the partition table to something I am more comfortable with. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3