Re: new installation preserving /home partition
On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:33:15 -0300, Mauricio Calvao wrote:
> 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?
Yes, you can preserve you current "/home" partition as is and install (or
update) the system. I wouldn't expect many problems after that but it
could happen that a couple of applications require for some manually
adjustments.
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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