On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 06:42:44PM +0000, michael wrote: > > On 2 Nov 2007, at 18:10, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 06:01:51PM +0000, michael wrote: >>> >>> >>> sorry to be thick but when I run the netinst CD it knows about the >>> current >>> partitions so if I just hit 'finish partitioning and write changes to >>> disk' is that sufficient/right? surely it will either wipe all data off >>> disk (not what I want) or change nothing (perhaps not what I want >>> depending >>> if the remainder of the installation will effectively wipe current OS and >>> additional packages and replace with ONLY the raw netInst CD o/s) >> >> you can go into the partitioner and edit what it does with each >> partition: keep as is, ignore, reformat, whatever. > > ah, so the default is to leave data? so I just select 'erase data' for > those I want the data erasing? > ;) not sure on what the default is as I almost never install :) but yes, essentially, you can select what happens to each partition. A
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