Warty : reinstalling, quick question...

[Philippe Landau]

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> Currently I have installed Warty with a separate /home partition.
> I would like to reinstall Warty without it losing the data of my /home
> partition. Is this possible ?
> I seem to remember that the partitioner has a few options, including "do
> not format" and "do not use", I think. 
> How should I proceed to to reinstall Warty and tell it to reuse the
> existing /home partition and KEEP my existing data ? 
> Should I mark the partition as "DO use" but "do NOT format" ? 
> I think I have already managed to achieve this, so I know it's possible,
> but it's so dusty in my memory that I would like to be 100% certain what
> to do, as I would rather like to get it right first time, and not lose
> my data.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vince, about to re-install his little Warty this morning...

you can easily achieve that.
during install, you specify manual partioning,
and play with enter and the four arrow keys :-)
the interface is like a pc-game: a riddle
that you understand after playing it 12 times.
it will present an overview of the changes before doing anything.
there will be exciting little symbols like a loughing sun
in black or in white, a thunderbolt, etc
and they will all talk to you in the coded charm of
advanced unix command line graphics :-)

kind regards     philippe