What's the worst thing about operating systems and progress? Clean-install/Re-install/Upgrade And, fedora has both: allot of OS and allot of progress While reading over the usability discussion on the devel list, I noticed someone's comment on the frantic release cycle - which is great, I want the latest and greatest. But, the clean install every 6mths or less has got the be the biggest pita for fedora. This is of course true with all OSs, only fedora clicks over three times the speed of anything else. Three times the pita. And we all want a clean-install cf. upgrade because we all want to make use of the latest and greatest fedora has to offer (never mind the questions of whether an upgrade ever actually works - on any OS). Many years ago I installed all the interactions between MacOS 7.1 and 8.1, and then some. The greatest thing I ever found was this: http://www.marcmoini.com/C-IAssistant.html It's called Clean-Install Assistant. A wizard that steps you through the process of saving your custom config (by comparing the system against a database of non-custom system) installing a clean system and then re-installing the custom config. Of course fedora is somewhat more sophisticated than MacOS 8.1, but the principle's the same. Basically, what I have to do at least every 6mths is: - List my packages - List all changes to /home/me/ - List all changes to /etc/ - back up /home/me/ and /etc/ - Clean install - List my new packages and yum the diff - Go through my lists of /home/me/ and /etc/ and move-reconfig from the backups - Then muck around for the next month or so fine tuning all the stuff that I don't know about and never will that naturally gets customised through use - By which time it's time to go through the whole process again! (not quite:) So, what a blessing it would be to have a wizard that by a few clicks of a mouse stepped you effortlessly and comprehensively through that pita I've just listed above. I know, my Mac heritage is showing:) But, the principle is a valid one and what a relief it would be. M. -- Morgan Read NEW ZEALAND <mailto:mstuffATreadDOTorgDOTnz> fedora: Freedom Forever! http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview "By choosing not to ship any proprietary or binary drivers, Fedora does differ from other distributions. ..." Quote: Max Spevik http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/17/177220
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