Dapper to Edgy problems

[Derek Broughton]

Ron Morse wrote:

> If you have the "desktop" version CD you can boot that, mount your
> hard drive and copy /home off to some other mounted device or drive
> that won't be bothered by the fresh install. When the install is
> done, copy the old, saved /home over on top of the new one.
> 
> Or, you can just restore the old /home from your backup into the new
> installation.

If you keep /home on a separate partition, then you can install without
touching that partition (ie /home for the new install is on the root
partition), and simply mount the old /home when the install is finished. 
If you have multiple users, you'll probably want to restore
the /etc/passwd,/etc/shadow and /etc/group files from the original system
(so that everybody keeps the same uids).
-- 
derek