Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3221 mails)

[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos F Lange wrote:
> On Tue November 20 2007 10:12, jdd wrote:
> > this is the install of a power user upgrading an old install.
>
> Sorry, but your assumption is wrong.
> openSuse 10.3 now recognizes an existing installation and retrieves info 
> from the old /etc/passwd before formatting the hard drive, even when a 
> complete fresh installation is performed. 
>
> I know, because I never upgrade. I prefer to do a fresh install of my 
> root partition, keeping only the home partition intact.

I also keep /opt and /local around, so that I don't have to
re-install other stuff that I've downloaded and installed.




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