[Yum] How to reinstall with yum?

[Greg Knaddison]

On 1/26/06, Alan Batie <alan.batie at peakinternet.com> wrote:
> We've started using centos around here, and some "unfortunate incidents"
> recently have made us wish for the ability to force a reinstall without
> having to go through the pain of a complete wipe and install from
> scratch.  yum doesn't seem to have an option to do that.  If they were
> FreeBSD, I'd just check out a fresh copy and "make world", "but it's
> not!", so if anyone has suggestions for doing the equivalent, I'd
> appreciate it.  Thanks!

Look in your /root/ directory for a kickstart configuration file and
read up on how to use those.  It's more of a CentOS question than a
yum question, but that should get you headed in the right direction.

If the idea of "make world" sounds good, kickstart will work just fine :)

Also, of course make a backup of any /home/ and /etc/ and config files...

Greg