On 9/19/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 23:15 +0800, Hikaru Amano wrote: > > does the harddisk installer from Fedora LiveCDs override the home > > folder? or is the home folder untouched like the normal Anaconda?? > > > > I want to upgrade to F8T2 but only have the LiveCD for now .. > > > What you say is strange. Since when does Anaconda leave the /home > directory unchanged. That happens only id you have /home as a separate > partition and tell the partition program not to change it. > -- oops , sorry, I forgot to mention that my home folder _is_ on a different partition. (i have been using separate partition for so long that i forgot it was not default ^_^ ) the LiveCD's anaconda installation method differs with the normal anaconda by using the less flexible dd-like copying instead of file-by-file copying. So I wonder if this dd-like installation method overrides the home folder or not. On 9/19/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I thought that if you did an upgrade, the installer would leave > /home alone. I am not sure what happens if you do an install but do > not format the partitions. While that should leave /home alone, I am > sure it would cause other problems. > with big changes in the core, (like pulseaudio and rsyslog), I prefer clean installations to avoid future pains. -- Mohd Izhar Firdaus Bin Ismail Amano Hikaru 天野晃 「あまの ひかる」 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MohdIzharFirdaus http://blog.kagesenshi.org 92C2 B295 B40B B3DC 6866 5011 5BD2 584A 8A5D 7331
