<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<br><br>i looked at the webs about linuk installation and installed my ubuntu 8.04 as follows:<br><br>/boot (sda1)<br>/ (sda2)<br>/home (sda5)<br>and swap (sda6)<br><br>i was under the impression that this setting will make upgrade less painful (read somewhere in the web but don't fully understood it). however, here come my questions.<br>
<br>say i decide to do a clean install of newer distro in the future (ubuntu 8.10 for example) instead of upgrade it (that would take much longer and more problematic if i'm right), i guess i should take the same setting but not format the /home partition. <br>
<br>however, after the installation, do I have to installl all applications I have installed (like virtualbox, keepassx, realplayer... ) or since i didn't format the /home partiotion all these nice applications will automatically installed and configured for me? or they just stayed there and didn't change a bit?<br>
<br>if i have to reinstall applications, do i have to configure them (like i did before) as well? if not, the newer distro come with newer version of same application (this is often the case i'd say), will my old configuration works? if not, that would means i have to reinstall and reconfigure everything, then what the use of separate
/home partition (this is a laptop and i am the only user)?<br><br>i was just confused by all this separate home thing. so could anyone shed some light on it? many thanks.<br><br></div>