reinstall ubuntu urgent

[Colin Law]

On 8 May 2012 09:27, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> 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?

As another poster said, specify your home partition as /home in the
"mount as" column (or something similar) and make sure that the Format
checkbox is /not/ checked, then it will leave it alone.

Colin