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Author: Bishmer Sekaran
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Subject: Re: Ubuntu 9.04
Stephen wrote:
> I guess you agoold investigate the old rule of /home being its own
> partition again
>
> :-)
>
> On 4/13/09, James Finstrom <> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> So I have been fighting the urge to re-install until the final release but
>> my geekyness got the best of me and I decided to nuke my laptop and install
>> Ubuntu 9.04 beta. Well It went pretty smooth, I Have a Dell Vostro 1000 and
>> it works out of the box including the display, wireless card everything.
>> During the install it detected my previous install and offered to migrte my
>> user account, files and settings. I did a backup but thought sure why not
>> one less step. Well the migration didnt happen but its cool because i
>> planned on manual migration anyway. I still have some playing to do but so
>> far I <3 the new ubuntu..
>>
>>
>>
>> James Finstrom
>> Rhino Equipment Corp.
>> http://rhinoequipment.com ~ http://postug.com
>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/rhinoequipment
>> IP:
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>>
>
>

Stephen is bang on target here. I have /home on its own drive and it's
glorious. Root can get corrupted, destroyed, resized or anything, and
all my personal files and data remain intacta. It's also fun for when
you want to try out other distros or a BSD or something.
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