Forcing a clean reinstall

[David Chart]

On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 18:04, Jeff Berman wrote:
> 
> Jonathan, can't you just run the installation program and delete the "/"
> partition, then recreate it, then perform the installation?  (There's a
> documented installer issue where it's not happy if you delete and recreate a
> partition in one sitting, so you'll have to delete the partition, exit the
> installer, then create the partition.)
> 
> Can someone else comment on this?  I'm very new to Linux, but wouldn't this
> work?
> 

I've used this method to move from LinuxPPC2000Q4 to Mandrake to YDL
2.1, and it's worked perfectly well. Back up your /home partition first,
just in case, of course.

You may have to delete and recreate the bootloader partition as well --
I remember having some trouble with that, but it may have been due to
distribution incompatibilities.

-- 
David Chart