Re: Re-install Fedora without destroying user data

2019-06-20 Thread CLOSE Dave
I wrote: > Well, not so fast. suomi's example did not involve LVM but LVM is > the default for Fedora. Trying to follow the example and adjusting > for LVM doesn't work for me. With these kickstart commands, > > bootloader --driveorder=sda --location=mbr --boot-drive=sda > clearpart --none --i

Re: Re-install Fedora without destroying user data

2019-06-20 Thread CLOSE Dave
suomi () wrote: > as far as possible I do the installation(s) using a kickstart file. > It is not possible, when you install from a Live CD. > My disk-partitionning in the kickstasrt file looks like: > > # System bootloader configuration > bootloader --location=mbr --boot-drive=nvme0n1 > # Partiti

Re: Re-install Fedora without destroying user data

2019-06-19 Thread CLOSE Dave
suomi () wrote: > as far as possible I do the installation(s) using a kickstart file. > It is not possible, when you install from a Live CD. > My disk-partitionning in the kickstasrt file looks like: > > # System bootloader configuration > bootloader --location=mbr --boot-drive=nvme0n1 > # Parti

Re: Re-install Fedora without destroying user data

2019-06-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/18/19 3:55 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: On a default Fedora installation with a sufficiently large disk, /home is a separate filesystem and should not contain any required system files. Thus it ought to be possible to completely re-install Fedora, the same version as was previously installed, witho

Re: Re-install Fedora without destroying user data

2019-06-18 Thread fedora
Hi Dave as far as possible I do the installation(s) using a kickstart file. It is not possible, when you install from a Live CD. My disk-partitionning in the kickstasrt file looks like: # System bootloader configuration bootloader --location=mbr --boot-drive=nvme0n1 # Partition clearing inform

Re: Re-install Fedora without destroying user data

2019-06-18 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 22:55:57 + CLOSE Dave wrote: > On a default Fedora installation with a sufficiently large disk, /home > is a separate filesystem and should not contain any required system > files. Thus it ought to be possible to completely re-install Fedora, > the same version as was prev

Re-install Fedora without destroying user data

2019-06-18 Thread CLOSE Dave
On a default Fedora installation with a sufficiently large disk, /home is a separate filesystem and should not contain any required system files. Thus it ought to be possible to completely re-install Fedora, the same version as was previously installed, without over-writing /home. I'd like to do th