proposed installer change...

[Michael A. Peters]

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.