Re: Testing Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardly Heroin

From: Scott Walde <scott_at_no.spam.please>
Date: Tue Mar 18 2008 - 21:59:22 CST

Virtual Sky wrote:
> Ah, okay. That clears it up for me.
>
> I would have been quite surprised if this was a first for the Ubuntu
> installer, as I've been able to keep my /home partition in tack with Mandriva
> since 8.2 (my first experience with Linux all those years ago - know as
> Mandrake back then).
>

That's been a feature of Linux installs for as long as I can remember...
at least going back to the earliest RedHats. I can't say for sure, but
I'd be surprised if the Slackware I used before that didn't also allow
that. Of course, the whole partitioning and formatting bit was a lot
more hands-on back then.

ttyl
srw
Received on Tue Mar 18 21:59:25 2008

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