On 3 July 2012 08:51, Barry Drake <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/07/12 07:28, Colin Law wrote: >> >> If /home is not in a separate partition then when installing ubuntu, if >> you select the "Something Else" option in the installer and then select the >> existing root partition to install into but do /not/ select the Format >> option for that partition then Ubuntu should install into that partition but >> should leave /home unaffected. > > To be honest, my experience of using the 'something else' option has not > been good! It's far easier and quicker usually to let the Ubuntu installer > follow the defaults and then put your stuff back. And you don't get the > annoyances of forgetting to specify the right boot sector and getting that > wrong, then having to work from the live-CD to re-install grub. That's a > pain and often happens almost by default in the 'Something Else' option.
I could not disagree more. I /always/ set up my own machines with a separate /home partition. It make life *so* much easier when upgrading. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: [email protected] • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: [email protected] • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
