On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 05:14 +0800, Hikaru Amano wrote: > 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. I doubt that any clean installation would preserve the home directory but I have never tried installing from the LiveCD so I can't say I am 100% sure of that. <snip> > > 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 > -- ======================================================================= So so is good, very good, very excellent good: and yet it is not; it is but so so. -- William Shakespeare, "As You Like It" ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
