On 10/17/07, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 23:38 +0000, Josh Blacker wrote: > > Am currently all booted up in gutsy rc live cd, but going through the > > installer it doesn't seem to be very intelligent about me having user > > profiles in my /home partition. It detects the ones from my Windows > > partition, but not the Ubuntu ones. Any ideas on why this is, and why > > I am prompted to enter new user information? I would have thought it > > would be able to see my exisiting Ubuntu /home. > > > > Well, there's nothing to "import" from your existing home directory is > there? If you want to "use" that partition, all that Gutsy needs to know > is where it is, and it will mount it.
Surely then, there should be no need to come up with new user information, that's my point - a little counterintuitive. I understand where you're coming from, though. > > So during the partition section you need to specify which partition you > want to be swap, which is / and which is /home. Make sure you tell it > not to format /home, but it will want to format / I suspect :) The annoying thing is, the installer lists my partitions as /media/sda1 etc, but Nautilus as /media/disk etc, which don't even seem to correspond! I may have to jump in and pray for the best... Perhaps I'm just being tired and slow! > Cheers, > Al. > Thanks, -- Josh Blacker -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/