Installing Ubuntu over Debian

Lars Hallberg lah at micropp.se
Sat Mar 26 20:07:00 UTC 2005


soul_rebel wrote:

>It should not be a trivial task. Do the install normally and select the
>partition to use as /home, you don't need to format that one. Than just
>re-add users and you have done.
>  
>
After install, do:

#ls -l /home

Will show the old users home with ther numerical uid (as the users dont 
exist). Use that info to deside in what order to add users, to get the 
same usernam -> uid mapping.

/LaH




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