reinstalling Hoary (was X server cannot start)

[David Walker]

Douglas Alves wrote:

> Hi people,
>
> A couple of weeks ago I posted a problem I'm having with Hoary, that a 
> blue & gray text screen comes up saying X cannot start and hangs 
> there. Two suggestions came up: disk full or nvidia update problem. 
> Neither is the case, I dont have nvidia, and my partition is 64% full, 
> which I believe is still workable (?).
>
> If I were to re-install Hoary without formatting the partition,
>  will the present /home be erased? (I think not, please confirm)
>  how can I keep my currently installed applications?
>
>
It depends how you have your partitions.  If /home is on its own 
partition during install you can select to have that partition mount 
with the same data, however, if you were to reformat / and not have a 
/home partition, the data under / would be lost.

-Dave