Something strange with herd5.....[solved]

[Fintan]

I just installed herd5 and was happy to see the live install work flawlessly, well almost.

I have a few partitions the most pertant for this post are:
hda6 = /home (where all my users are installed)
hda7 = swap
hda11 = root herd5

After install and booting into herd5 I just went into my home directory to see what it looked like. The user for herd 5 is fintan2. Well it wasn't in /home but in /home/ meaning under root. I had activated /home before install and all my other users are on that partition. This user is not.

Even more confusing is the file fintan2 itself. Here I find the same files as in /. I will try to explain.
/ has the usual :bin, boot, dev, etc, home, media, mnt, var, usr, and so on.
/home/ has the same files plus a fintan2 and a home (empty) file. The home file under / should contain fintan, fintan1, fintan2. and nothing else. In short my user files but not a copy of my root partition and fintan2.

I am seriously mixed up as this has never happened before and this is not my first linux install either.

So I want fintan2 on my /home partition as usual and not under / with a bunch of copies from / as well.

If this is confusing I made two screenshots.

How do I include these into this post? I tried with attach. but it didn't work.

Any ideas? I am open to any ideas.

Cheers
fintan

[dibl]

Re: Something strange with herd5.....

It sounds like your original /home directory was set as root (/ ) for Herd 5 -- not sure how that would happen, but the Herd 4 installer was a bit flaky when it saw my pair of SATA drives.

You might learn something by reviewing your Grub menu file, which is /boot/grub/menu.lst.

[Fintan]

Re: Something strange with herd5.....

Thank you and you are partly right.
I had to copy fintan to reset fstab to the right partition (hda6) (which is wierd enough) then copy fintan2 to the proper partition mounted as /home, then point fintan2 user to that partition. As far as grub is concerned, well my bootloader runs under mbl->edgy so I just copied the resp. entry from the grub/menu fiesty into grub/menu edgy. That worked fine.

My question is why this happened in the first place?

Anyway Feisty is quick an d fast. so lets keep playing)

Cheers
F