Re: new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-08 Thread Weaver
On Sat, September 8, 2012 5:28 am, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 08 September 2012 12:05:32 Weaver wrote: >> That's with reinstalling with the stable disc of the time, then >> upgrading >> all the way back up to unstable. >> No back up. >> Nothing! > > Ouch!! You obviously enjoy playing Russian roule

Re: new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 8. September 2012 schrieb Mauricio Calvao: > 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 final

Re: new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-08 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:33:15 -0300, Mauricio Calvao wrote: > 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

Re: new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-08 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 08 September 2012 12:05:32 Weaver wrote: > That's with reinstalling with the stable disc of the time, then upgrading > all the way back up to unstable. > No back up. > Nothing! Ouch!! You obviously enjoy playing Russian roulette! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-08 Thread Weaver
On Sat, September 8, 2012 1:51 am, lee wrote: > "Weaver" writes: > >> On Fri, September 7, 2012 5:33 pm, Mauricio Calvao wrote: >>> 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 howe

Re: new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-08 Thread lee
"Weaver" writes: > On Fri, September 7, 2012 5:33 pm, Mauricio Calvao wrote: >> 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 **advis

Re: new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-08 Thread lee
Mauricio Calvao writes: > 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. It might still be possible to just upgrade, esp

Re: new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-07 Thread Weaver
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 fin

Re: new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-07 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:33:15 -0300, Mauricio Calvao wrote: > I would like however to preserve my /home partition. Is that > **advisable** or should I delete this partition as well? Depending on how much version dependant stuff you put there. I personally never put any version dependant tools in