install ubuntu without deleting data

[Cyborg Alpha]

vijay shanker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is a situation.
>
> I accidentally lost ubuntu desktop.
>
> What i was doing is trying to beautify my ubuntu instance by 
> installing some themes.
> and after installing few themes, i decided to uninstall those themes. 
> and once i did uninstall; every thing is screwed.
>
> I am able to login in my account but all i get is a tiny terminal on 
> left top of screen.
>
> can you help me out of this
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Vijay Shanker Dubey
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Steve <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com 
> <mailto:yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:12:00 -0000, vijay shanker
>     <vijay.shad at gmail.com <mailto:vijay.shad at gmail.com>>
>     wrote:
>
>     > Hi friends;
>     >
>     > I am wondering if there exists any way by which I can do a fresh
>     > reinstall
>     > UBUNTU without deleting current installation.
>     >
>     Why? How is your drive partioned?
>
>     One way would be to create a new partiton of 10Gb or so and do a clean
>     install to that as root and mount your old partition as /home.
>     As always care and backups should be done.
>
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>     Steve
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I had this type of situation. What you need to do is boot from the 
liveCD and then use the file manager to access your home folder to back 
up to a flash drive, or external (usb) hd. Then reinstall ubuntu.

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