On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> >
> > unless mkfs is erroring dureing format (check tty5) it's eraseing it all
> >
>
> Sorry but I'm too much of a newbie to know how to check tty5 just yet... Is this
> something I should do now, or something I do during a format, and how do I check it?
> ;-)
>
alt+F5 key during the format.
>
>
> I have another question... Bear with me because I'm coming at you from a Windows 98
> background ;-) But when I'm re-installing, it doesn't seem to matter whether I tell
>it
> to format the native partitions or not. Either way it gets rid of my /home
>directory and
> replaces it with a new one. Is this normal? Being a Windows user, I am accustomed
>to
> thinking that re-installing without reformatting should preserve most user settings.
> At
> the end of my re-install, I re-add the subordinate username and its password and find
> that nothing is left in my /home/username folder anymore. Just wondering!
>
If you don't have /home on a separate partition, it WILL delete your
/home directory when you reformat it. Also, if you DON'T reformat
(are you absolutely sure you didn't say format???) it shouldn't
affect the home directories.
John
