On Fri, September 7, 2012 5:33 pm, Mauricio Calvao wrote: > Hi > > I currrently have a desktop running old Debian 5 (lenny). I myself > installed some programs outside apt management, both > because there were no deb packages for them and because I need some > more recent versions. Thus, I have finally decided > to move on to Debian 6 (squeeze) and then possibly even to Debian sid, > which I have already used for some time as the aptosid > distribution. I would like however to preserve my /home partition. Is > that **advisable** or should I delete this partition as well?
No, you can do that. The facility to have the /home partition specified, in a new install, is there along with the choice to preserve the data on it. I usually install a /, swap and /home partition. If I nuke an install, replacing the root partition only and merely specifying the other two works. I have done this on any number of occasions. Regards, Weaver -- "The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US . . ." -- Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/d969a139f72a03a0773ce08bd26a26f8.squir...@fulvetta.riseup.net
