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Hello<BR>
Only partially related to the subject...<BR>
How do you set a separate partition for /home in Ubuntu? It doesn't seem to give the choice in the installation process. I suppose I'd have to create the partition manually after a clean install.<BR>
Thanks in advance if you can help<BR>
Farran<BR>
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On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:42 +0100, Matthew Wild wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hi,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Firstly, I always have /home as a seperate partition. This preserves</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">my files and per-user settings.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">As for installed software, there is a way to save what packages are</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">currently installed. After installing the new Ubuntu, you can have it</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">reinstall the packages automatically. This said however, I always make</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the list but I have never used it. There is something I like about a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">fresh start :-)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">In Terminal:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">dpkg --get-selections > filename</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">dpkg --set-selections < filename</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">...to save and restore package states respectively.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hope this helps,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Matthew</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">On 03/09/07, Eddie Armstrong <<A HREF="mailto:eddie_armstrong@ntlworld.com">eddie_armstrong@ntlworld.com</A>> wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I often read users saying when a new or new stable version is released</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> they do a fresh install and then re-install all their configs and</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> programs and other goodies.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> So...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> If I want to do a fresh install as above to end up with almost a clone</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> of my present system running on a new version of Ubuntu (or just a clean</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> one ) how can I get all my settings and all my programs etc without</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> doing it all manually - one program at a time ?? How do the exp people</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> do it?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Eddie</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> --</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> <A HREF="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> <A HREF="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> <A HREF="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</A></FONT>
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