Re: how to reinstall?

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

On 2 Nov 2007, at 18:51, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

> 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.

aha. you have to change "Use as" (from "do not use" to required  
filesystem) to get to the submenu which offers choices re keep/delete  
data!