At 8:47 AM -0500 7/31/05, akonstam@trinity.edu wrote:
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 05:05:09AM -0400, David Niemi wrote:
Finally going to bite the bullet and update my main machine, one question though.
How will I have to handle existing user directories and information on the /home partition if I do a fresh install of FC4? What will happen when during the first run I have to create a user and this user's directories etc already exists? I am going to back up all the information to DVD anyway as well as leaving copies on other partitions.
Also, will my raid0 drive (data drive) cause / be a problem?
Back up all the critical directories, /home, /root and maybe /var if you have mail there, into tar file/ Store the files somewhere where they can be accessed later (a RW CD maybe). Install the new operating system. Then untar the tar files using the -k option. This option does not install files with the same name in the directory. Or untar the tar file in /tmp and copy files from the old etc, for example, that you want to retain.
These two re-install methods will do the job.
Also back up /etc. You might need it if settings get munged, to have something to compare with.
There's probably some other important directories, but I haven't done this yet myself, so I don't have the benefit of (harsh) experience. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' mailto:tonynelson@georgeanelson.com ' http://www.georgeanelson.com/