Cary, Lisa, thank you both for your advice! I'll give it a whirl this weekend and let you know how I do.
Do I need to do anything during the reformat/reinstall to tell Ubuntu to recognise my existing /home partition as the location of /home, or will it figure it out itself? [email protected] wrote: > From: > Cary Bielenberg <[email protected]> > Date: > Wed, 20 May 2009 19:11:08 +1000 > > Rob, > I believe that the official line is that you can't upgrade from Hardy -> > Jaunty but I have done it 7 times so far with no ill effects. Admittedly > all my installs have been Kubuntu & the only problem is the kde3 to 4 > upgrade & deleting the .kde directory in the users home folder fixes > this. If your using Gnome I really can't see any problems. > > > Cary > From: > Lisa Milne <[email protected]> > Date: > Wed, 20 May 2009 19:12:39 +1000 > > Not at all, I've done that numerous times when swapping distro's, you > don't even need to delete anything, just jump straight into the install > and let it reformat the partition (and make sure it's not formatting > the /home partition!). > > Lisa -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
