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On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 19:47 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: snip > If you decide to do a complete reinstall from scratch, backing the data > up first and then reformatting the partitions, I'd suggest maybe > creating a separate /home partition, it makes it easier to reinstall if > you have issues (basically you do the manual reinstall option telling > the installer to mount the home partition as /home but not to format it). Thanks - we successfully backed up everything and he can now do the rest, though there are a couple of tricks first (see recent emails). James -- james kilty http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq