On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 03:57:21PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > >>What I do think is that there must be a different way to do a fresh > >>install without needing to reformat the whole HD. I think that it is > >>only necessary to reformat the /boot and the / (root) partitions. > >>Anyone has the "grand-mommy" recipe? [snip] > Leaving /usr and /var (the OP only wanted to reformat / and /boot) could be > asking for trouble though; if you really want to keep your existing > settings I'd be inclined to go for an upgrade rather than a fresh install > without reformatting /usr, /var etc. I don't think he has /usr and /var on separate partitions -- they're part of /. This is pretty normal (and fine) practice on a desktop/workstation machine. But yeah -- all such "system partitions" need to get cleared. (And if you do have separate partitions, chosing to reformat them is easy too.) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
