Thanks for all information! Actually I don't have /usr neither /var separated. "Grand-daddy's" recipe should do the trick. It's quite clear why you should wipe all but /home partition. I didn't know you could reformat only /boot and / partitions. Now we all hope that FC3 should be gentle and easier to handle. Thanks folks! Thudor PS Go RED SOX! On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:00:25 -0400, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: . > > >>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/>
