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.
Leaving /usr and /var (the OP only wanted to reformat / and /boot) could be asking for trouble though; if you really want to keep your existing settings I'd be inclined to go for an upgrade rather than a fresh install without reformatting /usr, /var etc.
Paul.
