Its a great idea and should be your standard for any installation. But be aware that different distros dont necessarily recognise home directories created by others. You will possibly need to do some chown -R here and there. I discovered this because I played around with various Mandrake and Redhat releases for a while untilI I settled withRedhat 8.
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Laurie Savage ================================ Physics/Maths/IT Teacher Pascoe Vale Girls' College Pascoe Vale, Victoria, AUSTRALIA ================================ On 2003-07-17 23:33:16 +0000 mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all, I just reads Ron's Mandrake 9.1 upgrade woes and thought I might throw this into the ring. I have made a habit of creating a partition called Home During my linux installs. This way my data is always intact even if an install goes horribly wrong, or if I have reinstall the OS (Like reverting back to RH 8.0, because of the ATi/Xinerama dramas in 9.0)
Not being a linux guru, it's nice to know that if I truck up the OS, I can reinstall the OS and my 'home' directories and it's contents are unaffected.
Just a thought
Regards
Mick
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