Oh, good, that's easy, you just tell it what partition you want to use as home, and then turn off the format option. Not sure _exactly_ how to do that, I don't use Mandrake, but pretty much every installer let's you do that. The option might also be called "Mount previously formated partition" something like that is what you want...it should be pretty obvious.
Make sure you still back up what you can't afford to loose!! Le Mercredi, 25 sept 2002, � 18:20 Canada/Mountain, Jesse Kline a �crit : > 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> > > <signature.asc>
