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> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Carl
> Parrish
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 12:37 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: HELP (again)
>
>
> Yes I updated the motherboard. If I do an upgrade will it delete my
> partitions. Also the box was running RHat 6.2 and the only disk I can seem
> to find is RHAT 7.0 since the new motherboard has USB connections
> I kind of
> want to switch to 7.0 anyways but when I get to diskduird <sp?> non of my
> partitions are labled (even though I *know* I named them). Can I just go
> though without formating any of my partitions?
>
> Carl sonotasystemadmin Parrish
>
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Yes, you can go thru without reformatting. Upgrade will not delete any
existing partitions.

HOWEVER (assuming that you prefer new install to an 'upgrade')

1 - reformatting ensures that junk isn't left over.
2 - if you can normally boot to linux - do so, type df and note which path
belongs to each partition so it will be easy to decide which ones you can
reformat - i.e. /home, /var & /opt - if they are separate partitions, you
might skip the reformatting to presever the data.

Craig