upgrade from RH9 to Fedora

[Scott Ware]

I know what you mean by saying it would be nice to have an option to
preserve the users' settings. I have read a couple of posts here where
others have mentioned that also.

As far as "backing-up" my user info, and other configuration files. I
usually don't care that much about my individual user account, because
whatever I wipe out, It's nothing that I cant put back. But, I usually
just write a shell script that back's up all of the configuration files
that I want for programs, and some of my files, and then tar's them up  so
that I can burn it to a cd, or transfer it somewhere else temporarily.

I will be tempted to do this again...and I probably will. I'll just
upgrade first, see how things are, and then i'll go ahead and do a clean
install.

> Scott,
> I like to do "clean installs" too... I did that when I installed FCT2 and
> FCT3, and will when FC1 is out as well. Right now I don't care if I
> reformat
> the entire drive... I bought a second drive just for the purpose of
> running
> Linux.... but when Linux starts actually replacing my Windows system, I
> won't have the luxury of simply reformatting the entire disk....
>
> What do you do to preserve the contents of /home and other directories?
>
> I wish there were an option in the install process that allowed
> "everything
> to be wiped out" except for the user stuff.
> I suspect this is easier said that done though because apps might have a
> tendency to put stuff in various directories... like maybe a certain app
> installs fonts it needs.... I might not want those put in the X11
> directory,
> but that might be "convenient" for the app....
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fedora-test-list-admin at redhat.com
>> [mailto:fedora-test-list-admin at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Scott Ware
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 10:33 AM
>> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: upgrade from RH9 to Fedora
>>
>>
>> For some odd reason...I always usually to a clean install when a new
>> distro or version comes out, just so I can test it as if I was just
>> installing it for the 1st time. But when FC comes out, I think that i'll
>> just do an upgrade from FC3, what i'm running now.
>
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