On 1/26/06, Alan Batie <alan.batie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We've started using centos around here, and some "unfortunate incidents" > recently have made us wish for the ability to force a reinstall without > having to go through the pain of a complete wipe and install from > scratch. yum doesn't seem to have an option to do that. If they were > FreeBSD, I'd just check out a fresh copy and "make world", "but it's > not!", so if anyone has suggestions for doing the equivalent, I'd > appreciate it. Thanks! Look in your /root/ directory for a kickstart configuration file and read up on how to use those. It's more of a CentOS question than a yum question, but that should get you headed in the right direction. If the idea of "make world" sounds good, kickstart will work just fine :) Also, of course make a backup of any /home/ and /etc/ and config files... Greg
