Tymestream Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 Can you upgrade to 10.1 CE or is it best to fresh install? I have been having a bunch of silly little problems with 10 official and am about to upgrade. I think a fresh install is always best but does it really make a difference? Could upgrading prevent having to re-configure my preferences and settings that I have already configured? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 yes but it could also carry forward any annoying things... if you maintain your home directory then desktop and user prefs will be preserved. You can backup the /etc directory too and copy that to the home to be preserved then you can copy the config files back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tymestream Posted October 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 Fresh install it is then. I will do what you suggest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 well its one option.... do you need help on backing up /etc and preserving the home directory ? have you got home on a seperate partition? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tymestream Posted October 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 I haven't actually run any backups yet. I am in the process of figuring out how to cron a job and back up to network or CD. I do have /home on a seperate partition. I have been working with Linux very indepth for a while now so I am fairly well versed - that said, any advice you may offer will be readily excepted. Specifically other than /home & /etc are there other things that should be backed up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 probably (theres always something) but those are what I usually do... if you have installed web stuff in /var/www then that too and make sure you didnt copy anything useful into /root... (like the ATI driver looking at your spec) But that usually does me for getting back up in a hurry.... If you really wanna upgrade then I think via urpmi is the best way, bvc seems to have very good results doing it this way but the CD way can be hit and miss. since you seem confident you might wanna consider playing with the homes a bit more too.... instead of inheriting all the accumualted crap in hidden directories you can rename the directory in /home and let the new install make a new one, check the gid and uid are the same after and then I call mine oldhome... So you can copy say the .firefox across but ignore stuff that you no longer use/want... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 yep, I do something very similar to gowator when doing a clean install, I do it completely clean and copy across old configs as they actually become needed. If you back up /etc, you will need to replace kdmrc (it lives under /etc somewhere, probably /etc/kdm or /etc/kde/kdm or something like that) with the 10.1 version after restoring your old tree, or else the login will be broken (assuming you use the default login manager). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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