[ubuntu-za] Interrupted Upgrade

[Lee Sharp]

Tim Johnson wrote:
> On Friday I decided to upgrade from Intrepid to Jaunty on my laptop  
> (elderly Fujitsu Siemens P4 with dead battery).
> At some point during the process, power was interrupted and I ended up  
> with a non-bootable disaster.  On booting I end up at a BusyBox prompt and  
> have no idea where to go from there.
> 
> I then did a fresh install of Jaunty onto a new partition and created a  
> /home partition too.
> 
> Everything went fine and Jaunty looks great (btw, I have an old built-in  
> Intel graphics card and have no problems with it).
> 
> My question is this:  Can I copy my old /home folder into my /home  
> partition and regain all my previously installed apps etc?  Would a fresh  
> installation of each app be a better approach?

You need to install all the apps.  Your home directory only contains the 
local configs and data, not the apps.

			Lee