Re: new installation preserving /home partition
Am Samstag, 8. September 2012 schrieb Mauricio Calvao:
> Hi
>
> I currrently have a desktop running old Debian 5 (lenny). I myself
> installed some programs outside apt management, both
> because there were no deb packages for them and because I need some
> more recent versions. Thus, I have finally decided
> to move on to Debian 6 (squeeze) and then possibly even to Debian sid,
> which I have already used for some time as the aptosid
> distribution. I would like however to preserve my /home partition. Is
> that **advisable** or should I delete this partition as well?
You can preserve your /home partition. Make a backup nonetheless! In case
you select the wrong partition for mkfs or something like that.
If you installed your own stuff in /usr/share/local, /opt and/or your home
directory, so outside of the domain of apt then you could also upgrade
your distribution via apt. You may find the software you installed manually
in the repository for the new Debian version.
Read Squeeze releasenotes in any case.
From the impression I got from your questions I advice to you to not use
Sid yet. Wait till you got a bit more experience with apt and co and be
prepared to fix the occasional bug now and then. I recommend learning to
use bugs.debian.org and to install apt-listbugs, possibly apt-listchanges
if using Sid.
Wheezy might be in order, cause its already frozen. But on upgrading you
need to upgrade each version, so Lenny => Squeeze => Wheezy. So for Wheezy
a new install will spare you two upgrades instead of one. But you need to
configure everything to your taste again. That said, on new installs – that
I do rarely – I found quite some stuff that I configured manually working
out of the box. I removed more and more manual configurations over the
time.
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