Installation menu

Suggestions and feedback for Linux Mint and the forums
Forum rules
Do not post support questions here. Before you post read: Where to post ideas & feature requests
Post Reply
Gabriele
Level 1
Level 1
Posts: 40
Joined: Wed Dec 20, 2017 8:14 am

Installation menu

Post by Gabriele »

When i install Cinnamon it provide me to install Mint new with another old system preserving the documents or to overide all.

I think this option should be expanded allowing the user to override the old system preserving the documents folder.

In other word an option with which i select a folder or more folder in the old system that can be preserved and copied in the new.

I said this because sometime linux crash and i need to reeinstall, i could recovery the document but i needed to copy from the crashed to the new after istallation.
User avatar
Moem
Level 22
Level 22
Posts: 16238
Joined: Tue Nov 17, 2015 9:14 am
Location: The Netherlands
Contact:

Re: Installation menu

Post by Moem »

The way people do this is generally to make a separate /home partition (using the 'Something Else' installation option) and then choose not to format that during the new installation.
Image

If your issue is solved, kindly indicate that by editing the first post in the topic, and adding [SOLVED] to the title. Thanks!
User avatar
lsemmens
Level 11
Level 11
Posts: 3937
Joined: Wed Sep 10, 2014 9:07 pm
Location: Rural South Australia

Re: Installation menu

Post by lsemmens »

I go even further than Moem (Who's advice is sound) and keep all of my critical data on a separate drive. I can then safely blow everything away on my OS drive and not risk forgetting something.
Fully mint Household
Out of my mind - please leave a message
Post Reply

Return to “Suggestions & Feedback”