[CentOS] CentOS-7 re-install

[Tony Molloy]

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.
> 

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