Easier installation with Anaconda

[Lubomir Kundrak]

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?

-- 
Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)