reinstall ubuntu urgent

[Joep L. Blom]

On 08-05-12 10:00, Colin Law wrote:
> On 8 May 2012 07:47, Joep L. Blom<jlblom at neuroweave.nl>  wrote:
>> ...

> Backup before you do anything else.  Boot off the usb stick and backup
> from /home on your hard disk from there.
>
> By the way, to get to the manual partitioning page in the installer
> select "Something Else" on the page with the install options.
>
> There is no point installing 11.10 and then upgrading to 12.04, go
> straight to 12.04.
>
> Colin
>
Basil,
With respect to the renaming which can disturb matters: it's another 
system as the one that is replaced and some very old W'2000 is somewhere 
on another disk and is not relevant. The renaming problem is that Im 
lazy and my wife hates change so I gave it the same name as her old 
Windows system so my network sees the same system - although with a 
different OS. I haven't used Windows as a main system for over 20 years 
and only use it in a virtual environment (VMware and Wine) for a few 
Windows only programs I need to use.
@Colin, yes I had seen the "Something Else" and good idea I will backup 
the /home partition to an external disk I use for backupPC.
I want to know that I can use and mount the old /home direction for the 
installation /home or can't that be done as even the manual installation 
formats every partition it's going to use first?
Joep