[Cialug] Tracking the Ubuntu beta distribution

[Barry Von Ahsen]

kristau wrote:
> On 3/1/07, Matthew Nuzum <matthew.nuzum at canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>> Having gone through this route with Dapper --> Edgy, and planning on
>> upgrading to Feisty when beta comes out, the one trick I've picked up is
>> to try and create a separate /home filesystem. This makes it much easier
>> to install from scratch if you need to.
>> -- 
>> Matthew Nuzum
>> newz2000 on freenode
> 
> The sage advice here, of course: you'll never regret making that
> backup of your /home hierarchy before you apply any major upgrade.
> Every time I've upgraded any distribution, I've started with with a
> backup of /home and /etc at the very least.  Never regretted it once.
> Saved me more than once.
> 

with a separate /home, I was able to install mandr(ake|iva) 2006 over 
debian woody, then go back to sarge, with only minor inconveniences in 
my .kde directory (and only when going from mandrake to sarge)

that was kinda cool

-barry