Help with install on archlinux distro.

[bwinfrey]

Hello,
I want to install Ubuntu on two systems that are currently running archlinux. The are each configured with four partitions: "/boot", "/", "/home" and swap. I would like to preserve the home partition. Does the Ubuntu installer allow for that?

Thank you.

Regards,
Brian

[SlugSlug]

yes

during instal select manual partition, you can then tell it whats /dev/sd* to mount where.
Just make sure format is un-ticked!

[bwinfrey]

yes

during instal select manual partition, you can then tell it whats /dev/sd* to mount where.
Just make sure format is un-ticked!

Thank you that worked fine.

One note though the UIDs needed to be changed - Arch Linux started at 1001 ubuntu started at 1000. I logged in on tty1 ([CTRL] + [ALT] + 1) as root and changed the UID(s) using
usermod -u arch_uid user_name