[ubuntu-za] Updating to Intrepid

[Vijay Makanjee]

Hi

I found that this was a good way to do this.

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome

useful site.

Not sure about the other thing

Vijay

Vijay Makanjee
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Bill Cairns wrote:
> This is slightly off topic to the other thread so I decided to start a 
> new one.
> 
> Last time I did a completely new install - the time before I did an 
> upgrade. Both worked well and I wouldn't mind going either way except 
> that I now hove so much other stuff installed that I would have to do 
> all over again.
> 
> But my question involves partitioning the drives: I have read on this 
> and other forums (fora?) that the smart thing to do is to have one's 
> home directory on a separate partition to remove the necessity of saving 
> and reloading it every time. Is there a way of moving the home directory 
> to a separate partition 'on the run' so to speak? Could someone point me 
> to a good tutorial on-line?
> 
> I am running VirtualBox under Ubuntu and XP as a virtual machine there. 
> I share my whole home directory with XP as a shared folder - works well. 
> But I am not quite sure where that windows stuff is. Is it hiding in my 
> home folder somewhere? How could I set it up to allow me to upgrade 
> Ubuntu without having to re-install Windows. (I don't want to have to go 
> through that again!)
> 
> Any other suggestions about good ways to do installs to make updates 
> even easier?
> 
> (I would qute happily stick with Hardy on my main machine except that 
> Intrepid definitely does fix the sound problems that I have had here).
> 
> Bill
>