"almost everyone else" does not me exclusive. However, you *do* have
a point. I guess I'll have to back up my stuff to (LS-120)superdisks, and install 8.0 again <*SIGH*>.
Never meant to say you were the only one, but you are the most vocal about this problem on the list. Maybe this time around you should make /home and others like /opt separate partitions so they won't be touched during an install. (assuming you select manual partitioning and select "preserve existing data" for those partitions). I've got my system setup that way and it makes reinstallations a breeze. I keep stuff like music and software downloads under a directory in /opt, and my usual home stuff in /home. Then if I need to reinstall, I can just tar up /etc and other configs, save the tarball under /opt, and take it from there. Of course it never hurts to have a backup of that data before I reinstall, but it does remain untouched.
I guess I was SO (read: *too*) confident that I could use CD's as a backup solution, as of > RH 7.* ....
I've been doing just that since the 7.X days, and removing magicdev has allowed me to do it on phoebe as well.
Tom
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