On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 11:42:51AM -0200, Thudor Brasilis wrote: > I'm already thinking on a fresh install of the soon to be current FC3. > I have the separated /home partition as a rule. Every time I need to > upgrade I need to backup the /home partition and start the installation > from scratch. > What I do think is that there must be a different way to do a fresh > install without needing to reformat the whole HD. I think that it is > only necessary to reformat the /boot and the / (root) partitions. > Anyone has the "grand-mommy" recipe? Or the "grand-daddy recipe". And luckily for the old folks, it's really easy: simply do what you've been doing, but when you get to the partitioning screen (and you'll need to make the choices that let you get to that screen -- no automatic partitioning), there's options to choose which partitions get reformatted and which don't. You're exactly right -- choose to wipe the system partitions and leave /home untouched. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
