[ubuntu-uk] Re-installs - How do exp users do it?

[Matthew Wild]

Re. APTonCD, it actually creates a repository on the disc that can be
used through Synaptic or any APT interface. It doesn't *just* copy the
files over.

As for using tar to pack your home folder, and extract again after the
installation, having /home on a seperate partition is easy enough
(there are even guides on the web, but I don't have web access atm)
and eliminates the need for tar and plenty of free space. For someone
who reinstalls every release (and once 6 times in one day) it really
is great.

Matthew.

On 04/09/07, Eddie Armstrong <eddie_armstrong at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Gav Ford wrote:
> > I don't know what aptonCD is or does, so someone else will have to heop
> > you there.
> >
> >
> I've since looked at this and it seems to just copy from the deb archive
> + any other debs you tell it to copy then writes to an archive/cd/dvd -
> just with a gui.
>
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