On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 15:24 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Aaron Konstam 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. > > > 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. > > Mikkel Well, the OP said that he did the install from the liveCD. I did not think that this gives the option to do an upgrade. If you you do an install and do not format the home partition then /home would be preserved but under gnome at least your gnome configuration files would have to be recreated. My solution to this is to store a tar of your old home directory somewhere. Then create the new user home directories and untar the tar file using the -k option which does not overwrite files that already exist. -- ======================================================================= Majority, n.: That quality that distinguishes a crime from a law. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
