Can I reinstall Gutsy without overwriting my /home folder?

[Fintan]

Re: Can I reinstall Gutsy without overwriting my /home folder?

Of course. At install you choose manual partitioning and edit the partition your /home is on so it is mounted as /home. DO NOT FORMAT!!! then install as usual. If you are doing a fresh install from feisty to say gutsy you will have to either upgrade to kde3.5.8:
http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-358.php

before hand. Or you can backup all your configurations for kontact, adressbooks, kalenders, kmail, etc in /home/yourusername/.kde/share/apps to another folder like configsold.
Then delete./kde and restore your backups to the new .kde after installation.

Good luck

I'm having trouble (along with a lot of other people, it seems) getting networking stuff working right in Gutsy, so I'd like to reinstall and start saving all the default scripts & settings before messing about with it again. Trouble is, I spent a lot of time getting all my XP crap migrated over to the /home folder, and I don't really want to do that again. is it possible to reinstall the OS while leaving the home folder (it has its own partition) untouched?