Installing Ubuntu over Debian

[Sam Tygier]

i think you can do this fairly easily with thge installer. 
to be safe you might want to install it normally in the / partition, then delete the home folder that ubuntu creates and fiddle your /etc/fstab to mount your old home partition into /home/username

sam

Mr. Pinto wrote:
> Hey all,
>      I am looking to install Ubuntu over top of a (non-Ubuntu) Debian
> installation.  I presently run a system with two disks - the first is
> partitioned roughly 50/50 between a WinXP install (used by my wife for
> Warcraft before we got our Mac) and the / partition for Debian.  The
> second disk contains /home.
>      I'm probably looking in the wrong places, but I haven't found any
> good information online for installing Ubuntu onto a non-Ubuntu Linux
> system, specifically keeping the old /home intact.
>      I am not concerned about keeping any data on the / partition.   I
> am quite concerned with retaining data located in /home.  Is there
> deviance from the basic installation that I should be considering?
> 
>      ~pinto
>