Ubiquity - setting a separate /home by default

[Evan Dandrea]

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 21:51 +0200, David Prieto wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> > > Ubiquity can now install onto a partition that has an existing home
> > > directory without deleting it. It just removes the system directories.
> 
> 
> Do you have to do anything special for that to work? I usually keep
> my /home in a separate partition, but I have another partition with some
> spare gigs to try Intrepid. This morning I reinstalled Ubuntu in that
> partition and it destroyed the previous /home folder.

Go into the manual partitioner.  Select your home partition and set it
to be mounted on /home.  Make sure the format box is not checked (it
will not be by default).  Finish configuring the rest of your
partitions, press next.  You should get a warning about it potentially
deleting files.  If you've made proper backups press continue.
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