#@!$ Red Hat and Fedora anyway

[Ken Moffat]

dep wrote:

>quoth Ken Moffat:
>| I'm using debian 3 with the new (experimental?)
>| installer and it's pretty sweet. 
>
>i'm curious as to the new installer. when i needed to do a reinstall 
>last month my initial thought was to jump over to debian, but old 
>debian hands i know warned me away *because* of the new installer, and 
>particularly because, they said, it made tasks such as preserving 
>a /home partition very difficult. has this been your experience, or do 
>you wipe everything when you do an install?
>  
>

I used the new installer on 2 machines successfully, but did wipe 
everything. Sorry, I can't remember if there was an option to not 
overwrite home. I guess if I was inclined to save /home I'd modify 
/etc/fstab after the install. (haven't tried it, but have read that it's 
not too difficult) I once tried to reuse home but had conflicts, so just 
decided to save what I needed and copy it back after installing. (Not 
always easy.)

-- 
ken