[ubuntu-za] Updating to Intrepid

[Bill Cairns]

This is slightly off topic to the other thread so I decided to start a new
one.

Last time I did a completely new install - the time before I did an upgrade.
Both worked well and I wouldn't mind going either way except that I now hove
so much other stuff installed that I would have to do all over again.

But my question involves partitioning the drives: I have read on this and
other forums (fora?) that the smart thing to do is to have one's home
directory on a separate partition to remove the necessity of saving and
reloading it every time. Is there a way of moving the home directory to a
separate partition 'on the run' so to speak? Could someone point me to a
good tutorial on-line?

I am running VirtualBox under Ubuntu and XP as a virtual machine there. I
share my whole home directory with XP as a shared folder - works well. But I
am not quite sure where that windows stuff is. Is it hiding in my home
folder somewhere? How could I set it up to allow me to upgrade Ubuntu
without having to re-install Windows. (I don't want to have to go through
that again!)

Any other suggestions about good ways to do installs to make updates even
easier?

(I would qute happily stick with Hardy on my main machine except that
Intrepid definitely does fix the sound problems that I have had here).

Bill
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