how to refresh 6.06 and save /home?

[Thomas Olsen - Instantiate-IT]

On Wednesday den 9. August 2006 21:05, Colin Brace wrote:
> On 8/8/06, bscbrit <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> > If your /home is on its own partition then it is easy.  Simply tell the
> > new install not to overwrite it.
>
> I've had mixed results using this approach, with certain existing
> .gnome, .gconf, etc settings files giving unexpected gnome problems
> under the new release.
>
> In theory, it is a great idea. In practice... I dunno.

Make a tar ball of your home directory and mail it to yourself - then 
reinstall ;-)
Not good if it's too large naturally but can't you just burn it to a CD-R?

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Thomas Olsen