I installed with a different username than already existed on the original home partition. But mounted the original home as home2 as suggested by Stephen Rees-Carter above. Then guided by Stephen's advice, prior to rebooting after the install had finnished I did the following.
A home dir was created by the install in /target/ with the new user's dir in it, ie /target/home/hettie. This contains the new skeleton users home. I moved this /target/home/hettie to /target/home2 using:- sudo mv /target/home/hettie /target/home2/ N.B. the user created during the install was "hettie" This does leave a /home on what will be the / but that will be mounted over with the existing real home partition. If you feel confident enought that you are not removing something then also do:- <bad if you don't know for sure> sudo rm -rf /target/home I then did the edit suggested by Stephen Rees-Carter above with the following sed command. sudo sed -i 's/home2/home/' /target/etc/fstab sync then rebooted using the dialog indicating that the install had finnished that we have been ignoring this whole time. This way I get a clean new user and preserve the data of the existing user, and have the existing home partition for both. Also note that if the original user was the only and first created users from a previous Ubuntu install then you will have all rights to the existing users home directory via /home/originalusername N.B this is not to be advised unless you know what you are doing or you are prepared to loose all of your existing /home if you make a mistake. I know this isn't any help with the bug but it might help some get going on the beta so they can help elsewhere. P.S. one can always re-create the original user in the new system and then (where username=original user name):- sudo chown -R username.username /home/username from a Ctrl+Alt+F1 session then return gui login via Ctrl+Alt+F7 Hope this helps someone. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/924660 Title: 12.04 Installer stuck on 'Removing conflicting operating system files' To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/924660/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
