On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Smith, Jonathan wrote:
> To make a long store shot, redhat tech. support now tells me
> that I have to format my drive and do a server install to get
> everything to work right. Is this true. each time a new
> version of linux comes out am I going to have to delete
> everything and reinstall???
>
Not necessarily. Do you have your '/home' and '/usr/local' on
separate partitions? Unless they do some low-level radical
changes to the ext2 filesystem, you should be safe. Even when
they do that, you could still mount the old ext2 system even if
/usr and other directories were using something like 'ext3' for
example. Just don't let the installation process re-format
the partitions you want to keep.
Best Regards,
L.G.
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