[xubuntu-users] Upgrading from Ubuntu to Xunbuntu

[Elfy]

On 15/05/13 21:16, Peter Flynn wrote:
> Most of my machines are running Xubuntu 13.04 but I have one running
> Ubuntu 12.10 and I want to upgrade it to Xubuntu.
>
> But a regular install from USB or CD will want to reformat the disk, of
> course, and the machine has everything in one partition (/)
>
> Is there a way to do it as an upgrade, so that /home is preserved?
>
> I can of course use the backup to copy /home and other stuff back after
> an install, but there's a lot of it, and an upgrade would be faster.
>
> ///Peter
>

If you do 'something else' with a clean install then it should leave 
/home alone.

Just don't mark the partition for formatting.

It certainly has worked for me only yesterday - and that was a mistaken 
clean install of the not released 13.10 over 13.04.

Elfy

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