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Migrating from SuSE 10 to Ubuntu 7.04

Asked by NikTheGeek

I know this is probably answered in the thread "Migrating from Suse to Ubuntu"! :) But I want to make extra sure!!

I have a SuSE 10.0 64bit system installed with the following partitions:
/ on /dev/hda1
/home on /dev/hda2
/downloads on /dev/hda3

I'm bored of SuSE now and I have 10 SuSE servers at work (SLES) anyway to play with. I find it slow and I have one or two problems such as usb support has stopped working.

I have the CD pack for Ubuntu 7.04 and have it installed on my Vaio laptop. I'm very impressed and it is nice and fast. So I want to put it on my main machine at home. Lets be honest, if it doesn't work out, I can get SuSE 10.3 and other than wasted time, I'm no worse off - AS LONG AS I DON'T LOSE MY DATA!!! And thats the bit I'm worrying about.

I don't have a spare hard disk, but I can burn really important stuff to CD. So if I install Ubuntu, what are my options?

Will I be prompted to "upgrade" replacing SuSE in / on /dev/hda1 or will I have to format it and replace it? Will I have the option of leaving /home on /dev/hda2 and then mounting it and attaching it to my username at a later stage or will Ubuntu create a /home somewhere else and break it all?

Your advice would be appreciated....

tnx

Nick

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Qwerty Maniac (qwertymaniac) said : 		#1

You do get an option of Manually setting the partition details. In it you should be able to mount your existing partitions as /home, /boot, etc and having the choice of formatting them or not. So just mount the /home, choose not to format it, mount the rest ( i.e. Just / ) and let them be formatted.

You can later mount /downloads via FSTAB.

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NikTheGeek (nikthegeek) said : 		#2

Ok, I'll give it a go over the weekend. Thanks!

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NikTheGeek (nikthegeek) said : 		#3

I did it last night. It went flawlessly. I formated / on /dev/hda1 but didn't format either of the other 2 partitions. I told it I wanted to mount /hda2 as /home and when it all installed and booted up, it had bought everything accross inc Firefox faves and Thunderbird emails. I did have to re-download the likes of Thunderbird, but once downloaded they worked with no more confirguration. Even my KDE desktop wallpaper and icons were migrated to my Gnome desktop.

Very impressed. Thanks!

Nick