install while keeping /home - updated experiences request
Charles Curley
charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Sun Aug 6 20:07:45 UTC 2006
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 02:37:13PM -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> On Sunday August 06 2006 1:56 pm, Charles Curley wrote:
> > If this is a production machine, I recommend
> > against installing one of the test series.
>
> Maybe I wasn't clear enough - this was my "old FC4 box" "put through a couple
> of experiments" etc... It is definitely not a production machine
>
> Thanks for the rest of your comments - very helpful - from what you said, it
> would appear that I may have problems, since I don't have the gid uid info
> from the old /etc. since that went away when I installed a couple of distros
> over the old FC4 / partition, formatting first. Since this is purely an
> experimental box now, I guess I'll be doing some further experimenting...
Well, if you find out that the old stuff in /home/cj is the wrong
user, you can still always "chown -R cj:cj /home/cj".
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