No, I do have a separate /home partition. What I want to do is reinstall
the system (on the root partition) without touching my /home partition
(which does exist). I'm sure that I read somewhere that you can do this
with Mandrake, I'm just wondering how?

Jesse

On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 18:18, S�bastien Taylor wrote:
> You mean you didn't put your /home on it's own partition?? Shame on you 
> ;-)  If you didn't you should back it up and do it this time, or else 
> you can just delete everything else then install on the sorta-clean 
> drive.  Or, finally, you could just try to upgrade...
> 
> 
> Le Mercredi, 25 sept 2002, � 18:00 Canada/Mountain, Jesse Kline a �crit 
> :
> 
> > I really want to have the latest and greatest, but I'm trying to figure
> > out the best way to go about this. I know that upgrades are not always
> > the best solution, but I have large video files on my /home partition
> > that aren't economical to backup on CD. Is there a way to get Mandrake
> > to install over the / partition without touching my /home partition? Or
> > is there a way to do a Debian-style upgrade using urpmi?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jesse
> >
> > On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 16:32, Dan Graham wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> The new Mandrake 9.0 "Dolphin" has been released.
> >>
> >> cya
> >
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