[ubuntu-uk] Replacing Linux Mint 13 with Ubuntu 12.04

[Barry Drake]

On 03/07/12 07:28, Colin Law wrote:
> If /home is not in a separate partition then when installing ubuntu, 
> if you select the "Something Else" option in the installer and then 
> select the existing root partition to install into but do /not/ select 
> the Format option for that partition then Ubuntu should install into 
> that partition but should leave /home unaffected.
To be honest, my experience of using the 'something else' option has not 
been good!  It's far easier and quicker usually to let the Ubuntu 
installer follow the defaults and then put your stuff back. And you 
don't get the annoyances of forgetting to specify the right boot sector 
and getting that wrong, then having to work from the live-CD to 
re-install grub.  That's a pain and often happens almost by default in 
the 'Something Else' option.

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