On 23 January 2013 14:10, Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 01:59:37PM +0000, 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. >> I accept that this probably isn't a really common use case, but it >> seems a shame to lose functionality that some of your users are using. > > Actually, I think this is a *very* important use case, and one you've > explained well. In fact, I wouldn't mind a checkbox that tells the installer > to just do exactly what you've said. I don't see anything in Bugzilla about > this -- can you file an RFE bug? The developers will not see your message on > this list.
RFE? I'm very happy to raise a bug. But I'll leave it until this evening - so people have a chance to tell me what I'm doing wrong :-/ Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
