mind_exploit
April 8th, 2011, 05:19 PM
Hello,
I have slackware on my laptop but it's pretty buggy lately, and last night it really pissed me off freezing and loosing the volume icon. (?!...!!!) So I decided to install Xubuntu over it.
(Most probably it'll be Xubuntu, 11.04 ... or maybe Aptosid with XFCE :) ...)
But - I'd like to try not to format the home partition. Now it's separated. (The partitions now are /boot, swap, / and /home.) So, I plan to:
1. Boot from the USB;
2. Delete all the hidden files and folders from the the /home. So anything that the Slackware has put and/or set - to be cleared.
3. Directly install, keeping the current partitions, but without formatting the home.
So ... could there be some problems ? ... or maybe give me some advise on what exactly I should do in order not to loose anything on my current home?
PS: The only thing that I think of that could make some problems is that when I booted Xubuntu 10.10 on my working machine - it couldn't mount any of the hard drives ... ? So if this happens on my laptop too - I won't manage to delete all the hidden stuff on the home.
I have slackware on my laptop but it's pretty buggy lately, and last night it really pissed me off freezing and loosing the volume icon. (?!...!!!) So I decided to install Xubuntu over it.
(Most probably it'll be Xubuntu, 11.04 ... or maybe Aptosid with XFCE :) ...)
But - I'd like to try not to format the home partition. Now it's separated. (The partitions now are /boot, swap, / and /home.) So, I plan to:
1. Boot from the USB;
2. Delete all the hidden files and folders from the the /home. So anything that the Slackware has put and/or set - to be cleared.
3. Directly install, keeping the current partitions, but without formatting the home.
So ... could there be some problems ? ... or maybe give me some advise on what exactly I should do in order not to loose anything on my current home?
PS: The only thing that I think of that could make some problems is that when I booted Xubuntu 10.10 on my working machine - it couldn't mount any of the hard drives ... ? So if this happens on my laptop too - I won't manage to delete all the hidden stuff on the home.