Help Please Can I reinsall FC 2 without losing my data

[Yu Shilin]

Bakup the data is the first choice, i think.

Paul F. Johnson wrote:

>Hi,
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>>I reboot the computer And used FC2's First CD with Linux rescue mode I
>>did not get any errors . after continuing many steps
>>the message I got  " Your system is mounted under the /mnt/sysimage
>>directory"
>>and the shell prompt came.  sh-2.05b# 
>>The result of  "ls" command:
>>bin             etc           linuxra             mnt
>>oldtmp            sbin                 sys                usr 
>>dev              lib             lost+fund            modules
>>proc        selinux         temp             var
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>You can get to your old system by issuing
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>chroot /mnt/sysimage
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>and from there, you should be able to fix the problem - assuming you
>know what the problem is in the first place!
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>>My question is if I reinstall FC2 without  any modification on dsk
>>partitions,  is  it possible to loose my data 
>>"database and programs"  that I have under  usr/local/           ? 
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>Results may vary, but I've never managed it.
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>TTFN
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>Paul
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