Ubuntu installation question

[walt]

On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 18:49 +0200, Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski wrote:

> >
>  Nope. But you could have a ID/GID mismatch. Every group and user in a 
> system has thier own number. Let say your user, walt has ID 1234, and 
> he's in a group smartguys that has a GID 445. You would have to edit 
> /etc/passwd after Ubuntu installation and change/add needed IDs/GIDs. If 
> you have only one user, you can assume that everything will be OK 
> (Debian-based distribution tend to use same values:-).
> 

Thanks for the response. I may just do a clean install..which is what I
should actually do. I was just being lazy and not wanting to go through
many cd's to get the stuff back on the hard drive. I am enjoying Ubuntu
on my laptop and want to try it out on my main desktop.

Walt