On 9/20/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 08:47 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > 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. > > If home is a directory, you can manually delete the rest of the drive > (all the folders but the home one), and not format drives during the > install. > > If home is a partition, you can do pretty much the same as the above > (format the other partitions, delete any folders left over, but leave > home alone). > > I'd be tempted to take home out of the equation for the new install, old > settings on a new release doesn't always work nicely (rename old home > directories, relabel old home partitions, before the install). If you > let the new install create a new home, you can work this out afterwards > (copy over old bits and pieces, as needed). > Thanks for the replies . I've successfully installed F8T2 by not mounting home partition during installation and add the entry to fstab afterward .. Still , my I'm still wondering whether the disk-to-disk installation of LiveCD anaconda overrides the home partition IF it is mounted from the installer ... bcoz well, my understanding, dd-like installation usually overrides .. but i dont know how it actually works @ Livecd anaconda ... -- 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
