On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:15:24PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote:
> http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/archiveinstall.html
> I believe most Fedora users would find such an installation option
> very helpful since you could be certain to retain the key
configuration
> settings for Linux and the user accounts while making certain that
> the major system directories were effectively given a clean install.
You can already get 80% of this by just keeping /home on a separate partition and choosing to not reformat it during the install.
Which is what I do - and it works well. I rpm -qa |sort > rpms.old
copy my old passwd, shadow, group files ssh keys
then I can clean install, restore stuff, look to see what I had that I no longer do - nice clean system with my user stuff left alone.
