Easier installation with Anaconda

Johann B. Gudmundsson johannbg at hi.is
Sat Mar 1 22:07:46 UTC 2008


Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anaconda is great user-friendly installer, but it lacks some less 
> popular functionality.
>
> When Anaconda is removing Linux partitions and creating new, it should 
> read some files from that partition.
>
> * /etc/passwd: to see what users were used (optionally setting new 
> password and permissions for existent /home directory on partition 
> which is not going to be removed)
>
> * /etc/modprobe.conf: to see what options were enabled
>
> * /etc/modules: to see what modules were autoloaded ie. in Ubuntu
>
> This probably wouldn't be possible for F9's Anaconda, but that changes 
> will be valuable for next releases too.
>
Anaconda is bloated enough...
Lot of things should be moved from anaconda to First boot/First login

The answer to your question is yum upgrade.....

Best regards
                  Johann B.




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