preserving partitions during reinstall

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 16:22 +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 09:04:05AM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > I am not sure why you could not do what you want to do with a variation
> > of the following process. tar up the partition you want to save before
> > you install the new version. Then after installation restore the saved
> > material using tar -k to the appropriate new partition.
> 
> This (or something similar) is what I ended up doing.
> My question to the list was how to avoid having to do that in future.
> Which no-one's managed to answer yet.
> 
I think that is becuse using anaconda alone it can't be done.

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