Re: How to reinstall Fedora without formatting all disks in system

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On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 14:26, John Nissley <jnissley@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am running fedora 12 on two computers I have.  It is time to upgrade
> for obvious reasons and I want to do a clean install of Fedora 15 when
> it becomes available in a few days.  Both computers have multiple disks
> with a relativity small disk that the operating system is on and then
> some fairly large data disks.  I would really like to be able to
> reinstall the operation system without being required to reformat the
> data disks.  I have never tried this before and was wondering if anyone
> could point me in the direction of how to do this.

That shouldn't be a problem. If you go the normal install route via
DVD it will recognise the old partitions and in the custom partition
screen you can choose which one the install should go on and how to
mount the other ones.

Make a backup anyway though :-)
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