re-installing Debian

[Janina Sajka]

It depends, Glenn, on where your /home is.

In the Fedora installation HOWTO we recommend creating a separate
partition for /home exactly for this reason.

So, if you've done that, you simply don't reformat /home. If, on the
other hand, /home is simply a directory under / (or some other system
related partition), the answer is "no."

Glenn at home writes:
> First of all, I wanted to mention here that I was going through some of the 
> messages I have saved since I first installed Debian, and it is wonderful 
> how I have gotten so much help from this list, even though it seems that I 
> still have a lot to learn.
> 
> I have been trying to fix my broken Debian since I really messed it up with 
> a failed attempt at upgrading.
> I did:
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> and now I get a kernel panic: attempt to kill init
> and above that it reads:
> modprobe error invalid line 237 in init.conf
> or something like that.
> And I have looked at line 237, and even tried remming it out, with # and it 
> still does not work.
> 
> I know someone who was going to try and log on with SSH, but he cannot get 
> through my router.
> So it seems that that option is out.
> 
> So I was wondering if I can just re-install Debian without losing my files 
> in /home/ftp/etc/pub?
> Thanks for any ideas.
> Glenn
> 
> 
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