On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 23:21 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: > 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 :)
Thanks, Tom. I will try that, though not today. :-) --Jean -- 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
