Hi

There's a great thread going with a similar title in this section. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite answer my questions so I've decided to post these separately.

Basically, I have Mandrake 9.2 installed on my system. I recently tried updating this to version 10 and almost lost my system. I've since tried Knoppix, loved it, and now want to install it on my HDD. "No problem", you say. But... and here's the big question... I'd like to retain the /home partition from my present set-up. Can I do this? If so, how?

My other partitions are /usr, / and swap. Can Knoppix recognise these and use them in the same way that Mandrake does? I've done several re-installs of Mandrake where these get reformatted while /home is retained.

Alternatively, I have some spare room on my HDD - remnants of an XP install I had to wipe and have, so far, been unable to re-use. I could reformat this as ext3 and install Knoppix here. But I'd rather retain a separate /home as I've found this very useful in the past.

Thanks in advance for any and all help offered.


Lance