On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 20:12:41 +0200, Phil Dobbin wrote: > I was wondering as to why Ananconda has no facility to overwrite a > distro already present on the target machine. I've studied it & > apart from destroying the existing partition with GParted there > seems to be no other way (this happens on 18 & 19).
"Overwrite" is a bit questionable what it should do, it can be done multiple ways and none of them seems as a clean new installation to me. What I do by hand is: mkdir /old mv /* /old Install new OS (sure without mkfs-ing the partition). Reboot to the new OS. Move the important parts/configs/etc. from /old/** to the new OS at /. rm -rf /old That "mkdir /old; mv /* /old" part cannot be done from Anaconda GUI. Jan -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct