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I want to reinstall 13.04 over my current installation (while keeping my files). From various other questions here, there is supposed to be an option on the Live CD to "Reinstall Ubuntu 13.04" (as shown here and here). Here is what I see:

I tried choosing "Something else" as suggested in this question. I select the partition with my current Ubuntu installation on it, but then I get an error, "No root file system is defined". Here is the screen:

What am I missing here? How do I reinstall Ubuntu?

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  • possible duplicated askubuntu.com/questions/80455/…
    – Braiam
    Oct 20, 2013 at 18:00
  • @Braiam so if I click 'Change' and set / as the mount point, that won't overwrite my home directory? Oct 20, 2013 at 20:05
  • Probably, but you should had backups somewhere no ;).
    – Braiam
    Oct 20, 2013 at 21:06

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If you encrypted your files when you installed ubuntu you cant save your files.

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  • No, not using any encryption. Oct 20, 2013 at 17:25
  • maybe you can not remember. lock my home folder. when installing.
    – user84277
    Oct 20, 2013 at 19:59
  • sorry I don't understand what you're saying... Oct 20, 2013 at 20:01
  • i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/extra/LINUX/large/…
    – user84277
    Oct 20, 2013 at 20:02
  • I don't remember that option when I first installed (which would have been 10.10 I think) but I would not have selected it if it was there. Oct 20, 2013 at 20:09

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