Install Ubunutu on top of CentOS 4.5? Upgrade...

[Nils Kassube]

Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> 	Yeah I know doing this is kind of nuts, and what the better ways
> are... But it would be nice to preserve the user info & such. Obviously
>  I would need to make sure the number for the Ubuntu user matches that
> of the CentOS user. Problem is, the CentOS user is 500, and Ubuntu
> starts at 1000...
> 	I wonder if it's possible to just change the CentOS user number to
> 1000 before the upgrade? Hmmm... Let me try creating a Ubuntu user at
> 500...

I would change the Centos user ID to 1000. Don't forget to chown the home 
directory:

chown -R 1000:1000 /home/<user>

And check if there are other directories owned by that user under /tmp 
(for KDE or Gnome).


Nils