How do I transfer /homes to new distro?

glenn69 · 10-15-2006, 09:29 AM

I just installed a new version of MEPIS on my system. It allowed an option to retain /home files. As a backup I saved all the /home/<user> to another partition. Now that the new MEPIS is up and running. I can only login to the first user. I created a user for the other users, but when I try to login I get an error that kde won't start.

Do I have to do something with permissions?
or does this have to do with the UID from the old system not matching the new user UID?

glenn69 · 10-15-2006, 09:33 AM

Here is exactly the message that I receive when trying to login to the new distro as any other user than the main user.

Cannot load kstartupconfig. Check your installation.

glenn69 · 10-15-2006, 09:40 AM

I found a fix to this.

Here it is : http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=328302