On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 15:56 +0000, Tony Arnold wrote: > Farran, > > Farran wrote: > > > I have just set up a new partition table, with 30gb at /, 15gb at > > /media/Work, 3gb at /root, 253gb at /home and 8gb swap. I am not > > formatting /home or swap, but when I get to the final step of > > installation where it tells me what it's gonna do, it says it will > > format 4 partitions. Should I be worried, or does 'formatting' include > > renaming and mounting partitions? > > Formatting will destroy any data already in those partitions. If you are > using an exsiting partition for any of the above and you want to keep > what is on it then you need to tell the partitioner not to format it. If > it's a new partition then formatting is required. > > Regards, > Tony. > -- > Tony Arnold, Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 > Head of IT Security, Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 > University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 > Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk
cheers, I've done it all now and it worked. Everythng was fine in the clean 8.04.1. But as soon as I upgraded to 8.10, compiz won't work again, and I think there's other issues I haven't discovered yet :( cheers =================================== Farran Lee I'm only 16 :P
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