On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:33:15 -0300, Mauricio Calvao wrote: > I currrently have a desktop running old Debian 5 (lenny). I myself > installed some programs outside apt management, both because there were > no deb packages for them and because I need some more recent versions. > Thus, I have finally decided to move on to Debian 6 (squeeze) and then > possibly even to Debian sid, which I have already used for some time as > the aptosid distribution. I would like however to preserve my /home > partition. Is that **advisable** or should I delete this partition as > well?
Yes, you can preserve you current "/home" partition as is and install (or update) the system. I wouldn't expect many problems after that but it could happen that a couple of applications require for some manually adjustments. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k2fpta$j4c$7...@ger.gmane.org