premamotion
December 30th, 2009, 04:17 PM
Two things are helping here... in my opinion... first is to have /home in another partition on the disk, and the second is to have a file with all the packeges installed on the system.
(you can have it with the command dpkg --get-selections > package_list.txt and when you want to install everything from this list just use
dpkg --set-selections <package_list.txt apt-get dselect-upgrade)
Hope that helps and answers your question.