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 > > > > <signature.asc>
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