Hi :) There is a trick.
Any Ubuntu, even a previous release, can be installed over the top of a different install without re-formatting. Some settings and configs get over-written . It can repair a partial or failed install (or upgrade). If you try a straight install of Ubuntu onto the same partitions, when you get to the "Partitioning Section" (about 7th or 8th page i think) choose the "Advanced" / "Manual" or now "Something different" option then you can choose the Mount Points. Make sure the column "Format?" has no ticks in it. Afterwards the /home/user folder gives a good indication of some of the programs that had been installed so just open Synaptic to reinstall them :) Reformatting will obviously wipe anything on the partition so just make sure the partitions don't get formatted. One thing i found amazing about this was a multi-tabs firefox session that i killed in one release using 1 edition of Firefox successfully re-opened all the right tabs in a different release of both Ubuntu and firefox! Bookmarks were all there too but that wasn't so much of a surprise. Regards from Tom :) -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
