[ShadowAce]

I believe so (I'm not familiar with the Mint installer).

1. Back up everything in /home/
2. Create a new partition and mount it somewhere under /mnt
3. cp -R everything in your /home/<user>/* to /mnt/<user>/. (be sure to include the .* files also)
4. During the installation, specify your new partition as /home.

That should do it. From now on, you should just be able to mount that partition under /home whenever re-installing.

[Bob434]

thanks, I’ll have to research what cp -R means, but i can do that myself- looks like it won’t be too hard-

[Bob434]

quick quesiton- using thunderbird, when i get a .mov, or any video file in email, and i open the video- the video player opens really small- I can drag and make it larger, but wouldl ike to open it larger everytime, but for soem reason the thunderbird won’t remember the size-

Any thoughts? I’ve tried two different ones in ubuntu cinnamon- MPV and Celluloid, and VLC which won’t even play .mov files- wish is would, because that program will remember size of video i believe-

[Openurmind]

To share the Mint installer question. Mint will automatically stack a new install over any existing OS installs if you choose “along side”. And you can stack as many as you like one over the other with the auto-installer. The latest install becomes the primary boot system for auto boot if you don’t choose a previous install from the boot menu list.

My curiosity would be if that ability is built into Ubuntu also? So that it will automatically install over a previously installed Mint as “along side/dual boot”? So that manual partitioning and etc are not needed like the Mint installer does?