How to reinstall Fedora without formatting all disks in system

Tue May 24 12:51:26 UTC 2011

On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 07:26 -0500, John Nissley wrote:
> I am running fedora 12 on two computers I have.  It is time to upgrade 
> for obvious reasons and I want to do a clean install of Fedora 15 when 
> it becomes available in a few days.  Both computers have multiple disks 
> with a relativity small disk that the operating system is on and then 
> some fairly large data disks.  I would really like to be able to 
> reinstall the operation system without being required to reformat the 
> data disks.  I have never tried this before and was wondering if anyone 
> could point me in the direction of how to do this.

Assuming that "data disks" includes /home, no problem. The installer
won't reformat anything it doesn't need to (unless you tell it
otherwise).

poc