Re: how to reinstall?

[michael <cs@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>]

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?
;)

thanks, M