OK, thanks, I think I'll manage as soon as I find a way to backup everything. <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jari Rahkonen</b> <<a href="mailto:jari.rahkonen@pp1.inet.fi">
jari.rahkonen@pp1.inet.fi</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Vincent wrote:<br>> I did make a separate home partition. I just don't know how to keep it when
<br>> re-installing. Anyway, this is a good opportunity to convince my friend<br>> that<br>> next time he makes himself a separate home partition.<br>><br><br>Keeping the home partition is easy. Just choose to do the partitioning
<br>manually, select /home as the mount point for your home partition and<br>that the data should be kept. I'm not sure how this works with the<br>livecd installer (because I haven't tried it), but the text based<br>installer on the alternate cd makes this fairly obvious.
<br><br>- Jari<br><br>--<br>xubuntu-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Vincent