Keep diskdata while installing

[Mariano Jara]

On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 17:58 +0000, Alan Pope wrote: 
> On 28 February 2011 17:51, Amedee Van Gasse <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> 
> Even if you haven't got a separate /home you can reinstall over the
> top by simply choosing manual partitioning, and _not_ format the /
> partition. It will delete everything except /home and install a new
> clean system.
> 
> I was happy to learn that this feature will be made a lot more obvious in Natty.
> 
> Al.
> 

Thanks Alan, it's always good to know there are alternatives to
fresh-installing the system. Colin Law suggested the same procedure in a
previous thread:

> On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 20:05 +0000, Colin Law wrote: 
> [snip] 
> > 
> > Remember that you can do an install without re-formatting the root
> > directory.  Then it will replace all the system stuff but leave your
> > home folder, so you will not loose your users and config stuff.
> Just
> > make sure you select *not* to re-format /.  I think you may have to
> go
> > down the 'Advanced' option in the install to do this.

-- 
Mariano