Missing Functionality in New Anaconda

Michael Cronenworth mike at cchtml.com
Wed Jan 23 14:26:18 UTC 2013


Dave Cross wrote:
> I have a separate /home partition which contains all of my important
> data. Therefore I want to do a new installation of Fedora 18 but reuse
> the existing /home partition. In the old Anaconda that was simple. I'd
> just use set up a customised partition layout, telling it to reuse the
> /home partition and to do what it wanted with the rest of the disk.
> But I can't work out how to do that on the new version of Anaconda.
> The new partitioning sets up this artificial distinction between the
> old Fedora 17 installation and the new Fedora 18 one and I can't see
> how to tell the new installation to use a partition from the old one.

Can you try setting the F17 /home mount point to /home? It should move
it from F17 to F18. You might have to click on an "advanced" button or
something similar to see the mount point option.


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