#@!$ Red Hat and Fedora anyway

[Net Llama!]

On 12/05/2004 10:34 AM, Ken Moffat wrote:
> 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.)
> 

This is redhat's anaconda installer that debian is using, right?  if so, 
unless debian has hacked it badly, it definitely provides an option to 
re-user existing partitions, such as /home, instead of formatting them.

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