Re: Missing Functionality in New Anaconda

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On 23 January 2013 14:10, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

RFE?

I'm very happy to raise a bug. But I'll leave it until this evening -
so people have a chance to tell me what I'm doing wrong :-/

Dave...

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