5.10 preview install disaster

[Alex Marten]

Using an existing home directory can indeed cause problems across
distributions.  One can run into permission problems do to differences
in user ids.  This is exacerbated in Ubuntu by the lack of a root
account as one is unable to log in as root first and check to make
sure that the primary user has the same uid as the one that originally
created the existing home directory.  I find that the best way around
this is to first set up a new home directory login and check the uid
info and once that is settled change the users home directory to the
desired one.

On 9/13/05, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
> On 2005-09-14, Alex Marten <alex.marten at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I guess with that many installs you never had time to realize the
> > importance of reading documentation.  Ubuntu makes use of sudo instead
> > of a root account, and I believe all those times you say it asked you
> > for the "root password" it actually asks you for "your password".
> > Next time I suggest reading what it actually says on the screen. ;)
> 
> That was a typo.  I provided my password and it didn't work.
> Then I set the root password and tried that just for the heck
> of it.  There were two things that seem to have caused problems
> with the first install attempt: 1) not having a network card.
> 2) reusing an existing home directory.
> 
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Alex Marten
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