Upgrading my Linux Mint Install
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 1:21 am
Hello
I have Linux Mint 4.0 or 4.1 or something like that.
I want to install the latest version BUT keep all my data without "backing it up" to another HDD.
So ... if I make sure all my files are in the /home location can I do a fresh install BUT keep /home and then when I'm done all my data will still be there ... right?
I mean I realize that I'll have to re-install software that I use but as long as my video files and text files and image files and music files etc. are still around I'll be happy.
Make sense?
I guess the next question is how do I properly set up the disk partitioning part of the install to make this work?
- John "FulciLives" Coleman
P.S.
Would it be better to install my data to a different location or "partition" and then just do a full install (without "touching" that data location) then copy my stuff back to the newly installed /home ???
I have Linux Mint 4.0 or 4.1 or something like that.
I want to install the latest version BUT keep all my data without "backing it up" to another HDD.
So ... if I make sure all my files are in the /home location can I do a fresh install BUT keep /home and then when I'm done all my data will still be there ... right?
I mean I realize that I'll have to re-install software that I use but as long as my video files and text files and image files and music files etc. are still around I'll be happy.
Make sense?
I guess the next question is how do I properly set up the disk partitioning part of the install to make this work?
- John "FulciLives" Coleman
P.S.
Would it be better to install my data to a different location or "partition" and then just do a full install (without "touching" that data location) then copy my stuff back to the newly installed /home ???