On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 16:18 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/06/2011 03:33 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > Don't mean to toot my horn, but even myself, who usually has pretty good > > luck salvaging bricked upgrades, had to admin defeat with one of my > > patients, this time, nuke it from high orbit, and reinstall it, after > > the F16 upgrade made an utter mash of it. > > You misunderstand. I'm not asking why I should reinstall, but why use > the LiveCD instead of the DVD. I'd always rather take a few minutes to > customize my install ahead of time because it saves hours of downloading > and installing things later. And, as I already have a separate /home, > I'd need a kickstart file to make it start UserIDs at 500 instead of > 1000. Nuke, pave, reinstall may be better than fixing, but for somebody > like me, it's not the simplest thing in the world. ---- out of curiosity, what is the requirement for having uidNumbers starting at 500 instead of 1000? I don't think that the Live CD isn't going to be friendly to keeping your /home partition. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
