Interesting as I have done this many times without having the user wiped out as long as I am staying in the same family (debian based versus fedora which use a different base uid). Of course, I was always doing systems which also had only 1 end user so I could count on the old and new uid to be the same (1000 for debian derivatives or 500 for some others). On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Joseph Sinclair wrote: > I would add, that you should rename the old user homedir to something else > from single-user-mode before the install, otherwise the account creation > during install will wipe out the existing user home directory. > A good backup before starting is also *very* strongly advised. > > On 01/04/2013 08:39 AM, Dazed_75 wrote: > > If/when you tell the installer to mount sda6 as /home, be sure to use the > > same file system type and if the is a check box for whether to format the > > partition, be sure it remains UN-checked. > > > > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Derek Trotter >wrote: > > > >> While you're installing kubuntu, choose to manually configure > >> partitions. Either do nothing with /dev/sda6 or choose to mount it as > >> /home. > >> > >> I have one whole drive for my home directory. Everything else is > >> installed on another drive. Recently I tried several distros. With > each > >> distro I chose the option to configure partitions myself instead of > letting > >> it do the job. I would either choose during the install to mount that > >> drive as my home directory or do nothing with it during the install and > add > >> it to fstab later. > >> > >> On 01/04/2013 12:37 AM, joe@actionline.com wrote: > >> > >> How can I do a fresh install of kubuntu on one of my systems that now > has > >> a corrupted pclinux installed, but protect the /home partition from > being > >> over-written? Can this be done safely? > >> > >> 'df' shows the following: > >> > >> /dev/sda1 12G 5.7G 5.6G 51% / > >> tmpfs 473M 0 473M 0% /dev/shm > >> /dev/sda6 168G 23G 146G 14% /home > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >> > >> > >> -- > >> "I get my copy of the daily paper, look at the obituaries page, and if > I�m not there, I carry on as usual." > >> > >> Patrick Moore > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry Please protect my address like I protect yours. When sending messages to multiple recipients, use the BCC: (Blind carbon copy). Remove addresses from a forwarded message body before clicking Send.