Re: [Trisquel-users] Upgrade to Slaine

[magicbanana]

For educational purpose, you had better try fixing your installation instead  
of doing a reinstall. Anyway, during the installation process you can choose  
a custom partitioning that allows you to specify where the root (/) partition  
should be. You can select the one used by the previous install (/dev/sda5 if  
I understand well what you wrote). It would, of course, be formatted.  
/dev/sda7 would not be touched. As a consequence, you do not need to backup  
this partition.