On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 01:59:37PM +0000, Dave Cross wrote: > I have a separate /home partition which contains all of my important > data. Therefore I want to do a new installation of Fedora 18 but reuse > the existing /home partition. In the old Anaconda that was simple. I'd > just use set up a customised partition layout, telling it to reuse the > /home partition and to do what it wanted with the rest of the disk. > But I can't work out how to do that on the new version of Anaconda. > The new partitioning sets up this artificial distinction between the > old Fedora 17 installation and the new Fedora 18 one and I can't see > how to tell the new installation to use a partition from the old one. > I accept that this probably isn't a really common use case, but it > seems a shame to lose functionality that some of your users are using. Actually, I think this is a *very* important use case, and one you've explained well. In fact, I wouldn't mind a checkbox that tells the installer to just do exactly what you've said. I don't see anything in Bugzilla about this -- can you file an RFE bug? The developers will not see your message on this list. -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
