Hardy install over existing Ubuntu install

[Michael]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 12:21 -0700, Michael wrote:
>   
>> <snip> When the partitioner asked for the root partition I told it to
>> use the existing one without formating it.  
>>     
>
> This is very wrong. You now have a mess of an installation, as old files
> that were not overwritten (because they had the same name) are now
> scattered everywhere. It's likely that it works basically ok, but weird
> issues can creep up.
>
>
>   
as a follow up to my last post I think this is the first version of 
Ubuntu that would let you not format the root partition, in the past I 
was required to format before installing from the live CD.
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