Major upgrade failure

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 16:18 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 12/06/2011 03:33 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > Don't mean to toot my horn, but even myself, who usually has pretty good
> > luck salvaging bricked upgrades, had to admin defeat with one of my
> > patients, this time, nuke it from high orbit, and reinstall it, after
> > the F16 upgrade made an utter mash of it.
> 
> You misunderstand.  I'm not asking why I should reinstall, but why use 
> the LiveCD instead of the DVD.  I'd always rather take a few minutes to 
> customize my install ahead of time because it saves hours of downloading 
> and installing things later.  And, as I already have a separate /home, 
> I'd need a kickstart file to make it start UserIDs at 500 instead of 
> 1000.  Nuke, pave, reinstall may be better than fixing, but for somebody 
> like me, it's not the simplest thing in the world.
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out of curiosity, what is the requirement for having uidNumbers starting
at 500 instead of 1000?

I don't think that the Live CD isn't going to be friendly to keeping
your /home partition.

Craig


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