Easier installation with Anaconda

Horst H. von Brand vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Sun Mar 2 16:27:11 UTC 2008


Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek <jakub.rusinek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lubomir Kundrak pisze:
> > On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 21:17 +0100, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Anaconda is great user-friendly installer, but it lacks some less
> >> popular functionality.
> >>
> >> When Anaconda is removing Linux partitions and creating new, it should
> >> read some files from that partition.
> >>
> >> * /etc/passwd: to see what users were used (optionally setting new
> >> password and permissions for existent /home directory on partition which
> >> is not going to be removed)
> >>
> >> * /etc/modprobe.conf: to see what options were enabled
> >>
> >> * /etc/modules: to see what modules were autoloaded ie. in Ubuntu
> >>
> >> This probably wouldn't be possible for F9's Anaconda, but that changes
> >> will be valuable for next releases too.
> >
> > ...and list of packages that were installed and also their
> > configurations. Dude, what's the point of reinstalling?
> 
> Understand - some people are migrating from one distro to another, or
> they created very big mess and need to recreate their system.

Then they need a HOWTO or somebody helping them through the process. It is
impossible for Fedora to fix a mess Solaris, NetBSD or Gentoo created. At
least automatically, and with some decent probability of 100% success.
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