[gobolinux-users] Installation doesn't handle reinstalling over the top of a previous home directory.

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Paul Bonser <misterpib at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was reinstalling from the 014.01 CD, over the top of my previous
> install, and when the install got to the creating of the home
> directory for my user, it basically froze.
>
> Looking at the process list it was doing a grep, seemingly over the
> full 6 or 7 gigs of data in my home directory, so after several hours
> of letting it run (while doing something else, not just sitting and
> watching it), I stopped the process and restarted the install after
> renaming the original directory to something else.
>
> It seems like it would be a good thing to support people installing
> Gobo and letting them keep their old home directories in place, right?

Hi Paul,

That's indeed very odd. I've just commited a fix to this in our
Installer, so in the next release things will work better.

Cheers,

-- 
Lucas
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