Re: LiveCD installer and home folder

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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.
> 
> 
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