No wired or wireless network

[Colin Law]

On 20 October 2013 23:11, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 10:17:14PM +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 19 October 2013 21:51, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > What are the reasons not to?
>>
>> Because, as the OP discovered, they fill up with old kernels, and then
>> you're screwed.
>
> What would be the reason to keep more than a few older kernels?
>
>>
>> >> [2] Don't try to fix your old installation. Back up the stuff in /home
>> >> and do a full clean reinstall.
>> >
>> > Ah, the M$ solution.
>>
>> Well, also the Ubuntu solution, as "inspired" by Mac OS X. The
>> installer explicitly looks for and preserves an existing /home tree
>> while nuking everything else. It is a standard feature.
>
> That's the first I've heard of that. Is it an ubuntu feature or a linux
> feature? Documented where?

I don't know whether it is documented, but it certainly works.  Just
go into the 'something else' option in the installer and tell it to
install into the same partition as the existing ubuntu and make sure
Format is NOT checked for that partition.  This feature has been
available for at least a couple of years now.

Colin