Keeping files from previous install

[primedes]

I'm planning to install Kubuntu Feisty. However, this time I'd like a separate partition, such as /media, for media files and such. I have Ubuntu Feisty on here currently on the sole partition outside of swap and all of my music is in /home. How might I install Kubuntu without over-writing my media. Could I just create another partition, install kubuntu on that, and still have access to my ubuntu /home folder?


Perhaps I'm making this too complicated.

[DeathKitten]

Re: Keeping files from previous install

If you just want to get to your files but have the awesomeness of KDE, try installing the kde-desktop package using Synaptic or Adept Manager.

To make yourself a separate partition for your media files and such, you need to either backup everything and do a fresh install, or you need to attempt to shrink your existing partition so you can make a new one for the media. Depending on how much free space you have to work with, how much space is occupied by media files, and how much time you want to spend fiddling around with this, it might be easier to just back everything up and repartition everything during a fresh install.

Someone else can make recommendations on the partitioning programs, but you can easily turn ubuntu into kubuntu just by installing that kde-desktop package, so that can get you halfway to what you want.

[lingenfr]

Re: Keeping files from previous install

You are making it way too complicated. When you install, it will give you the option to preserve /home. If you create a separate partition, don't name it /media since (k)ubuntu uses that. Unless you have a specific reason not too, use the default partitioning tool that comes on the CD and make your life easy.

[DeathKitten]

Re: Keeping files from previous install

You are making it way too complicated. When you install, it will give you the option to preserve /home. If you create a separate partition, don't name it /media since (k)ubuntu uses that. Unless you have a specific reason not too, use the default partitioning tool that comes on the CD and make your life easy.

Unless /home is its own partition, usually a fresh install will wipe it along with the rest of the hard drive.

Personally I'm a big fan of a two partition install, one partition for /home, and one partition for everything else. I've actually got mine going with two hard drives, a 30gb for everything else, and a 200gb for /home.