Thinking on a "smart upgrading" to the near FC3

[Paul Howarth]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 11:42:51AM -0200, Thudor Brasilis wrote:
> 
>>I'm already thinking on a fresh install of the soon to be current FC3.
>>I have  the separated /home partition  as a rule. Every time I need to
>>upgrade I need to backup the /home partition and start the installation
>>from scratch.
>>What I do think is that there must be a different way to do a fresh
>>install without needing to reformat the whole HD. I think that it is
>>only necessary to reformat the /boot and the /  (root) partitions.
>>Anyone has the "grand-mommy" recipe?
> 
> 
> Or the "grand-daddy recipe". And luckily for the old folks, it's really
> easy: simply do what you've been doing, but when you get to the partitioning
> screen (and you'll need to make the choices that let you get to that screen
> -- no automatic partitioning), there's options to choose which partitions
> get reformatted and which don't. You're exactly right -- choose to wipe the
> system partitions and leave /home untouched.

Leaving /usr and /var (the OP only wanted to reformat / and /boot) could be 
asking for trouble though; if you really want to keep your existing settings 
I'd be inclined to go for an upgrade rather than a fresh install without 
reformatting /usr, /var etc.

Paul.