Clean install keeping home folder intact

[Edward M]

Edward M wrote:
> Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
>> BUILDING a system?....doesn't that mean like YEARS of studying
>> C+?...Perl?....and all the other programming languages out
>> there?.....yipe! Now THAT sounds TOO painful!.....LoL!!! 
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>    No, that not hard; Gentoo is my main desktop os and i run Fedora in
> vrutalbox.
>    The OS is a rolling distro and needs to be installed manually(
> creating filesystems, installiing base files, packae manager, linux
> kernel,fstab file,etc) the user configures everthing. it is time
> consuming. I'm lousy at explaing stuff,  the link down below explains
> the install process.
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>     http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml
  
       obviously, i also  type lousy:-[