Re: Upgrade from 8 to 9: Yes or no ?

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On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:42:43 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Tom Horsley wrote:
> 
> > I always keep extra partitions around where I can install from
> > scratch the new release and decide if things work well enough to
> > switch (also allows me to keep the previous release around
> > in case I need to go back to it and to check and see how I did
> > things so I can replicate all the features in the new partition).
> 
> One slight problem with this is that if one shares /home
> between the two versions this could conceivably cause problems.

You can share /home just fine, but better create separate user
accounts for the different distribution releases.

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