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.