On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Phil Dobbin <bukowskis...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, all.
>
> 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).
>
> Most painful it is.
>
> If anybody can show me a workaround I'd be most grateful.
>
In %pre you can do anything, for example preserving the ssh keys. Using
cobbler https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/KickstartSnippets or in
satellite using kickstart profile
https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite/5.3/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-provisioning-templates.html

Best

>
> Cheers, Phil...
>
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