OK I've got backups, BUT ....

[R Kimber]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:05:06 +0200
Duncan Lithgow <dlithgow at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 20:26 +0100, R Kimber wrote:
> > There are other versions, but they
> > share the same /home as far as I can remember
> 
> Very bad idea - how do you expect program version 3 to have the same
> personal configuration files as program version 1? If you boot into an
> older ubuntu it will have to overwrite or ignore the newer versions of
> config files (unless you're lucky of course)

Actually, I haven't done that.  I was misremembering.  I did do it a
long time ago in order to test something, but there is actually only one
other, completely separate version with it's own /home that has been
unused for some long time, when I was experimenting with MythTV and
should have been deleted. I think it is irrelevant to the problem. It's
partition gets mounted as /media/hda12.

- Richard.
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Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/