new motherboard - reinstall ubuntu?

[thephotoman]

For future reference, you can keep everything in /home if you've got 
that as a separate partition--I always do that on my systems.  It'd 
handle most of those modified config files, but not the binaries (unless 
you installed them with fakeroot--which might be a good idea, especially 
if you are the only user on your system and your /home partition is much 
larger than your root file system or /usr/bin partition.

Martin Ericsson wrote:
> 
> I'm about to buy a new motherboard (ASUS A7V600-X) since I've had a lot 
> of problems (non-linux related) with my current motherboard. Will I have 
> to reinstall ubuntu and if so, is there any way that I can store 
> settings (modified configuration files, installed packages etc..)?
> 
> Martin Ericsson
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