Re: reinstall ubuntu urgent

On 8 May 2012 09:27, Joep L. Blom <jlblom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 08-05-12 10:00, Colin Law wrote:

On 8 May 2012 07:47, Joep L. Blom<jlblom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:

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Backup before you do anything else.  Boot off the usb stick and backup
from /home on your hard disk from there.

By the way, to get to the manual partitioning page in the installer
select "Something Else" on the page with the install options.

There is no point installing 11.10 and then upgrading to 12.04, go
straight to 12.04.

Colin

Basil,
With respect to the renaming which can disturb matters: it's another system
as the one that is replaced and some very old W'2000 is somewhere on another
disk and is not relevant. The renaming problem is that Im lazy and my wife
hates change so I gave it the same name as her old Windows system so my
network sees the same system - although with a different OS. I haven't used
Windows as a main system for over 20 years and only use it in a virtual
environment (VMware and Wine) for a few Windows only programs I need to use.
@Colin, yes I had seen the "Something Else" and good idea I will backup the
/home partition to an external disk I use for backupPC.
I want to know that I can use and mount the old /home direction for the
installation /home or can't that be done as even the manual installation
formats every partition it's going to use first?

As another poster said, specify your home partition as /home in the
"mount as" column (or something similar) and make sure that the Format
checkbox is /not/ checked, then it will leave it alone.

Colin

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