On 23 January 2013 14:10, Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 01:59:37PM +0000, Dave Cross wrote:
I have a separate /home partition which contains all of my important data. Therefore I want to do a new installation of Fedora 18 but reuse the existing /home partition. In the old Anaconda that was simple. I'd just use set up a customised partition layout, telling it to reuse the /home partition and to do what it wanted with the rest of the disk. But I can't work out how to do that on the new version of Anaconda. The new partitioning sets up this artificial distinction between the old Fedora 17 installation and the new Fedora 18 one and I can't see how to tell the new installation to use a partition from the old one. I accept that this probably isn't a really common use case, but it seems a shame to lose functionality that some of your users are using.
Actually, I think this is a *very* important use case, and one you've explained well. In fact, I wouldn't mind a checkbox that tells the installer to just do exactly what you've said. I don't see anything in Bugzilla about this -- can you file an RFE bug? The developers will not see your message on this list.
RFE?
I'm very happy to raise a bug. But I'll leave it until this evening - so people have a chance to tell me what I'm doing wrong :-/
Dave...