Josh,

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.

Maybe you should do an upgrade instead of a re-install? That will keep
your exiting partitions and all existing user names.

I downloaded the alternate CD and popped it into my running Feisty
system and clicked on upgrade in the window that popped up.

But there are other ways to do it.

Regards,
Tony.
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