Question about installation from a live CD

[Josef Lowder]

On 4/17/09, JD Austin <jd at twingeckos.com> wrote:
> First chown the old directories to have the same owner and permissions
> they used to.
> Then move the new home to home2 (or whatever).
> Then either symlink or create a mount point to the old home.
> reboot.
> If all is well then you can delete home2 (or whatever).

Thanks very much.  This sounds like a good method.

The PCLinux reinstall of "/" was so quick and easy,
I just wondered if I missed a step or did something incorrectly
that might have allowed the original /home directory to have
been hooked in automatically instead of creating a new one.