en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/15601 Comments by ageispolis http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/04/howto-restore-all-installed-packages-in.html#IDComment540581 Call me Mr Obvious here, but now&#039;s also a good time, if you haven&#039;t already, to create a seperate home partition and move your /home directory there. <br /> <br />Also, if you put your package list in /etc as outlined here, it would disappear when you install, as the root partition gets formatted by default. Thu, 1 May 2008 08:35:19 +0000 http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/04/howto-restore-all-installed-packages-in.html#IDComment540581