reinstall ubuntu urgent

[Joep L. Blom]

On 08-05-12 10:37, Colin Law wrote:
> 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
>
Colin thanks! That was the information I was missing.
Joep