Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek <jakub.rusinek(a)gmail.com> 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.
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