re-install

[Liam Proven]

On 20 March 2013 13:26, Ash Wyllie <ashwmls at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I installed 10.04 _then_ copied /home/diane. Should I do it the other
> way around?

Yes, that's right. So long as the user is the first & only one on the
system (which is pretty much the norm these days) and has the same
username (so it looks in /home/{whoever}) then all your old settings
should get picked up.


> I get diane:x1000:1000:...
>
> The old installation was a single user system, as is this one.

Perfect.

> Whether the old number was the same as this one, I don't know. Is there
> a way to find out?

1000 is the first - numbers below 1000 are reserved for system
accounts - so this looks fine.



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