Chris G wrote:
Depending on how the disk is partitioned (i.e. if /home is a separate partition) you may simply be able to upgrade the installation and retain /home. I'd still back it up though, it's very easy to confuse partitions at install time.
This is true.. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/34/ Hopefully it'll get picked up by a dev or two and added in the next release. We shall see..
-Si