Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek <jakub.rusinek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Lubomir Kundrak pisze: > > On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 21:17 +0100, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Anaconda is great user-friendly installer, but it lacks some less > >> popular functionality. > >> > >> When Anaconda is removing Linux partitions and creating new, it should > >> read some files from that partition. > >> > >> * /etc/passwd: to see what users were used (optionally setting new > >> password and permissions for existent /home directory on partition which > >> is not going to be removed) > >> > >> * /etc/modprobe.conf: to see what options were enabled > >> > >> * /etc/modules: to see what modules were autoloaded ie. in Ubuntu > >> > >> This probably wouldn't be possible for F9's Anaconda, but that changes > >> will be valuable for next releases too. > > > > ...and list of packages that were installed and also their > > configurations. Dude, what's the point of reinstalling? > > Understand - some people are migrating from one distro to another, or > they created very big mess and need to recreate their system. Then they need a HOWTO or somebody helping them through the process. It is impossible for Fedora to fix a mess Solaris, NetBSD or Gentoo created. At least automatically, and with some decent probability of 100% success. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
