install while keeping /home - updated experiences request

[Claude Jones]

My old FC4 box, for various reasons, was put through a couple of experiments 
and is currently a MEPIS box. However, I kept my old /home directory, 
actually an entire dedicated 300GB drive intact; currently, it is not mounted 
on the MEPIS machine. I would like to apply FCt2 to this machine and dump 
MEPIS, but it would be nice if I could bring up the old /home volume as /home 
in my new Fedora installation (/home is an LVM created under FC4); are there 
any downsides? 

If I decide to do this, what is the method? When I install Fedora, there's an 
early point where I can go into the advanced partitioning screens and select 
my home volume and instruct it not to be formatted (if I'm recalling this 
correctly); then it gets to the post install fresh boot-up screens and it 
asks me to create a user etc... What should I do at this point? Any 
advice/suggestions/experiences appreciated. Do I select my old user name "cj" 
and just reinstall that, or can I expect that /home/cj will be alive and well 
when the machine comes fully up? I've read many posts about this but the 
exact procedure eludes me. 

I'm asking this here because it's a much larger subscriber base, and it's 
really not a question specific to FC6t2. 
-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA