It depends, Glenn, on where your /home is. In the Fedora installation HOWTO we recommend creating a separate partition for /home exactly for this reason. So, if you've done that, you simply don't reformat /home. If, on the other hand, /home is simply a directory under / (or some other system related partition), the answer is "no." Glenn at home writes: > First of all, I wanted to mention here that I was going through some of the > messages I have saved since I first installed Debian, and it is wonderful > how I have gotten so much help from this list, even though it seems that I > still have a lot to learn. > > I have been trying to fix my broken Debian since I really messed it up with > a failed attempt at upgrading. > I did: > apt-get dist-upgrade > and now I get a kernel panic: attempt to kill init > and above that it reads: > modprobe error invalid line 237 in init.conf > or something like that. > And I have looked at line 237, and even tried remming it out, with # and it > still does not work. > > I know someone who was going to try and log on with SSH, but he cannot get > through my router. > So it seems that that option is out. > > So I was wondering if I can just re-install Debian without losing my files > in /home/ftp/etc/pub? > Thanks for any ideas. > Glenn > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
