Keep diskdata while installing

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On Mon, February 28, 2011 10:12, Reinhard Hnat wrote:
> I had a problem while updating my Ubuntu server to Version 10.04. Now it
> is not able to boot and I think i have to install it for new. Is there a
> possibility to not have disk new partitioned and formatted?

If you have partitioned your hard disk at the first installation, and for
example /home is on a different partition, then you can choose to only
format / and keep /home.

If you have not partitioned, then you will have to make a backup.

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Amedee