On 16 September 2010 10:24, Tyler J. Wagner <ty...@tolaris.com> wrote: > Which distro installers support this?
It's a feature of Ubiquity. I do not know if the alternate CD also has the feature because I've not tried it recently. > They actually "rm -rf" those directories > first? Yes. > If so, this is indeed an excellent feature. The last Ubuntu installer I > used only specified format or not, and didn't say anything about clearing the > directories first. It doesn't say anything about it in the installer which is why most people don't know about it. But I think it's been in Ubuntu for at least 3 releases. > What I don't want is existing, non-conflicting older files to > be left there. Nothing is left, the entire filesystem (bar /home) is cleaned. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/