re-installing Debian

[Glenn at home]

I chose the default partition setup when I installed Debian.
But I am sure it is on the same partition, because I just do
cd /home from /
and I am in home.
Glenn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen review 
system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: re-installing Debian


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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