[CoLoCo] can't add user - path exists

[Chomafin]

Why not rename /home/jim to /home/Jim, create the new user, then copy all
non . files over? Then you'll have a new home dir/configs and you can just
copy what configs you might want.
For renaming, I think it'd be best to first boot the live disk, load the
/home partition as /homenew or some such, then rename jim, then restart and
go through the install per normal.

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org>
wrote:

> I just finished installing hardy on a computer with a separate /home and
> several users. During the install it only created the one user and used the
> same /home as before. When I try to add a new user who also existed before I
> get an error about the path existing. Of course it exists. I didn't format
> /home and want to have the same users as before with their files and
> settings. That's why I have the separate /home. So if I have a path like
>
> /home/jim
>
> and I want to make a new user "jim" how do I get around the error and have
> it use the same path?
>
> Thanks.
>
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