Saving my panels before upgrade

Philippe phd2 at fcomfrench.com
Mon Jan 17 03:36:30 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 23:10, Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 22:51 +0700, Philippe wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 22:24, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> > > On 01/16/2005 05:39:47 AM, Philippe wrote:
> > > > Which files I must save and copy back to my gnome desktop on FC3, so  
> > > > I
> > > > will have the same desktop and panels at the end ?
> > > 
> > > Fedora Core 3 left my panel configuration the way they were in FC2 and  
> > > LFS before that.
> > 
> > Not for a fresh new install ;-) 
> > 
> Lets add a condition to your statement.
> 
> Not for a fresh new install *that overwrites/formats the /home
> partition*.
> 
> To save users data and settings all that is required (in most cases) is
> to have /home on a separate partition and to not format that when doing
> the install.
Thanks Michael and Jeff for your answers. I do understand now why it can
be useful to have a /home on another partition. Your answers showed me
the right reason to do it.

I will make a fresh install with a brand new /hoe partition, and copy my
/home backup on it. FC4 should be more easy to install then ;-)

Philippe 
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Philippe, Chiangmai, Thailand




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