On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:42 PM, <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The difficulty is that there's always stuff already on the partition > that I'd rather keep, so my first thought is an overlay. [But I've > been bitten before, so I should know by now.] I just put all the stuff I like to keep on a separate partition myself. That way I can just wipe the boot partition without having to care. Regards, Rene