Re: install while keeping /home - updated experiences request

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On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 02:37:13PM -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> On Sunday August 06 2006 1:56 pm, Charles Curley wrote:
> > If this is a production machine, I recommend
> > against installing one of the test series.
> 
> Maybe I wasn't clear enough - this was my "old FC4 box" "put through a couple 
> of experiments" etc... It is definitely not a production machine
> 
> Thanks for the rest of your comments - very helpful - from what you said, it 
> would appear that I may have problems, since I don't have the gid uid info 
> from the old /etc. since that went away when I installed a couple of distros 
> over the old FC4 /  partition, formatting first. Since this is purely an 
> experimental box now, I guess I'll be doing some further experimenting...

Well, if you find out that the old stuff in /home/cj is the wrong
user, you can still always "chown -R cj:cj /home/cj".

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