Use another partition for Home directory?

I upgraded my Power Mac G5 to Leopard and it recognized that I use a separate partition for my home directory. My MacBook didn't have enough space on my system partition to upgrade, so I did a clean install. Now I'm stuck using a home directory on the system partition- NetInfo manager does not exist in Leopard to allow this change and I want to use another partition for my home directory. How do I change this?

Use the 'ln -s' command in the Terminal, which is in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder, to create a symbolic link to the desired location of your home folder, and put it where your current home folder is. The l in the command is a lowercase L; to see instructions for it, run 'man ls'.
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