On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 12:21 -0400, David-Paul Niner wrote: > Fortunatly, in the Linux world, upgrading (for me > anyway), has always been a matter of nfs mounting a remote /home > directory. Obviously, the same could be achieved with a local drive > (and doing thorough backups!). Yes - that's what I do. Not NFS, though - just a separate /home partition. I back up my ssl certs etc. - then do a clean install but don't format /home