Have the Fedora developers ever considered modifying the installer to allow for an installation method similar to the Archive and Install approach used by Apple in MacOS X?
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/archiveinstall.html
I believe most Fedora users would find such an installation option very helpful since you could be certain to retain the key configuration settings for Linux and the user accounts while making certain that the major system directories were effectively given a clean install. Jack
Jack Howarth wrote:
Have the Fedora developers ever considered modifying the installerto allow for an installation method similar to the Archive and Install approach used by Apple in MacOS X?
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/archiveinstall.html
I believe most Fedora users would find such an installation option very helpful since you could be certain to retain the key configuration settings for Linux and the user accounts while making certain that the major system directories were effectively given a clean install. Jack
I just looked at the link, and I for one would love such a feature in Anaconda.
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:15:24PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/archiveinstall.html I believe most Fedora users would find such an installation option very helpful since you could be certain to retain the key configuration settings for Linux and the user accounts while making certain that the major system directories were effectively given a clean install.
You can already get 80% of this by just keeping /home on a separate partition and choosing to not reformat it during the install.
On 01/27/2005 07:44:33 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:15:24PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/archiveinstall.html I believe most Fedora users would find such an installation option very helpful since you could be certain to retain the key
configuration
settings for Linux and the user accounts while making certain that the major system directories were effectively given a clean
install.
You can already get 80% of this by just keeping /home on a separate partition and choosing to not reformat it during the install.
Which is what I do - and it works well. I rpm -qa |sort > rpms.old
copy my old passwd, shadow, group files ssh keys
then I can clean install, restore stuff, look to see what I had that I no longer do - nice clean system with my user stuff left alone.
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Michael A. Peters wrote:
| On 01/27/2005 07:44:33 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: | |> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:15:24PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: |> > http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/archiveinstall.html |> > I believe most Fedora users would find such an installation option |> > very helpful since you could be certain to retain the key |> configuration |> > settings for Linux and the user accounts while making certain that |> > the major system directories were effectively given a clean |> install. |> |> You can already get 80% of this by just keeping /home on a separate |> partition and choosing to not reformat it during the install. | | | Which is what I do - and it works well. | I rpm -qa |sort > rpms.old | | copy my old passwd, shadow, group files | ssh keys | | then I can clean install, restore stuff, look to see what I had that | I no longer do - nice clean system with my user stuff left alone.
In the office, even this is simple by using an LDAP server. Anaconda will allow you to forgo the setup of a user account and tell it to use LDAP. System comes up ready to use.
Haven't found a way around the SSH keys yet, but when I have time will probably look to LDAP for that also. If I am upgrading the LDAP server, just slapcat the ldap server first, then slapadd after install. All user accounts will come right back to life.
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