Hmm.. complete format of my linux parition in general, or just slackware? If you count 9.0 and 9.1, total is probably around 7-8. Basically, at my current skill level, if i mess up my system badly, one of the best options is reinstallation. I actually do find it fun to completely reinstall everything and start over again.

If you count all linux flavors that I have used (RH 6.1, slack 9 and 9.1), then its been close to 15 times. On average, maybe once every 1.5 months. Maybe i should find the time to make a /home partition, because redownloading stuff I need is sort of annoying.

Complete do-overs, out of necessity (ie, user error or basic "eff up" on my part): 2 or 3
Complete do-overs, because I learned a better way and/or I wanted to improve my system: maybe 8 or 9

At this stage, with what I've learned about Linux from Slack, a total re-install would not be intimidating at all, unlike the prospect of a total re-install with other OS's. Slack Rocks -- J.W.

There is a little note I gonna add to:
In the previous time one have to deal with many thing manually, it was the time where installing linux is kinda advandture, so the experience made from is reflected deeply into the grew cells.

Even those information u can find in any books n cheap, they will not even think those as information, bcoz the linux install is made much easier today. So they tend to overlooked those information.

The conclusion is that only those experienced the linux install hardtime can extract the essence of the whole story, so da one who stole such an information must be death brained, or pretend to know thing, but still not correctly expressed ==> caught on lieying ..

whoa whoa lier
loughing me deathly on da floor ... with stomachache..

Linux? Probably about twenty times in four years on three machines. Poor performance on my PPC compared to Mac OS 8.6 or even Windoze at the time. Using two i_86 machines, both where the hardware has failed. That necessitated new hardware and the complete reinstallation.

Apple ][gs? Maybe twice since I bought it in '86. I don't really remember making a new complete installation.
Mac G4? Maybe one re-installation in two years.
Motorola StarMax? Started with OS 7.6, then 8.1, 8.6, and 9.1 since '97. I guess that makes three.

Bucky

I used someone's guide to installing Linux, who used a larger hard drive. He had split the seperate partitions for /home /usr /etc etc. and I accidentally made the one that holds all the libs too small and failed to load necissary ones for all the GUI's I wanted to use to work.

Came here found out I could do it all to one partition + swap and that was my one reinstall. Haven't messed with slimming it down, which that box could use, so I expect to do another one once I have everything down to what I want to use.