> >The good news is that you if you can mount your DOS partition (if it's
dual
> >boot), you can back up anything you want to keep (stuff from home
> >directories?) by archiving with tar, and copying them across. Use tar to
> >keep file permissions - if you just copy them to a DOS/VFAT partition,
they
> >will lose ownership and become chmod'ed 755.
>
> So next time set up a seperate partition for home!
>
Doh! Of course, you're right - it's been so long since I've done a clean
reinstall I'd forgotten that...
Cheers,
Gordonjcp
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