On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:40:36 GMT, spam@uce.gov (Citizen Bob)
wrote:

>On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:48:47 -0500, kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:
>
>>Unless there's something particular you're needing that you
>>didn't mention, there's no need to be deleting partitions to
>>move settings and files from one installation of an OS to
>>another.
>
>I did not give that part about deleting partitions any consideration
>because it was based on the particular problem being addressed by that
>KB article. I brought the part I considered relevant to your
>attention. Now I wish I had excised the unnecessary parts, like the
>part about deleting partitions.
>
>My question remains: Is that procedure a reasonable way to go about
>creating a clean install with the prior configuration?

No, because that's not a "clean installation".
A clean installation is the opposite, it's quite
specificially NOT doing anything more to transfer from your
old installation, yet.

Then comes making a backup, and testing the clean
installation.

After that you can do whatever you want to it, since you can
always go back to the clean installation to make a different
change.

You seem to keep wanting a comprehensive migration from your
old installation to a new one. That's more likely to
reproduce the existing problem. We can't know if the
problem will persist or not doing it- you could try it but
the more conservative approach is not to plan it like you
are doing, rather to take it one step at a time.