On Friday 07 November 2014 13:43:42 James B. Byrne wrote: > 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. It's called progress ;-) > > 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. > -- Linux nogs.tonyshome.ie 2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 15 04:27:16 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux