On my former Lenovo notebook windows xp pro installation, Lenovo added a feature called "rejuvenate system", which restores windows xp to a baseline installation (the first backup snapshot of the system taken), while keeping all data files intact --presumably whatever is stored in My documents.
Is this the kind of feature you mean with "in place re-installation"? thanks, Daniel On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 21:56 +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Daniel Hollocher wrote on 05/11/10 15:20: > > > >>>> That is a common misconception. Reinstalling Ubuntu on the same > >>>> partition doesn't lose the user's data either. > >>>> > >>>> A problem that is both real and more interesting, is working out why > >>>> so many people have that misconception, and how we can correct it. > >... > > I imagine you would have to make it part of the gui of whatever > > installer supports it if you wanted more people to use the feature. > > Otherwise, it is a bit too complicated to communicate to people. > >... > > That's a good point. > > Up till now, to get this effect, you had to use the advanced > partitioning step, choose to use the existing root partition, but choose > not to format it. That was pretty obscure. > > Today Evan Dandrea, the installer maintainer, has been working on making > in-place reinstallation one of the basic installation options. > > - -- > Matthew Paul Thomas > http://mpt.net.nz/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkzbFQYACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecrGeACfZojcSBSPTlQg3PoV3tnIff9X > kiwAn1+MuCD93MGX5ytiozkVzuq/h32i > =vM74 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
