camorri Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 I have a triple boot system, w98 Mdk 9.2 and Mandriva 2006. I have had no success fixing menudrake in 2006. I discovered I have killed MCC, that won't launch any more. It's a long sad tail, so I decided its time to install a fresh system, something new to play with... W98 and Mdk 9.2 are fine. 2k6 is ( was ) my main system. Before I install, I like to make copies of many of the configuration files, just in case I can't get something working right away. It also saves a lot of time re-figuring out things like what sound module to modprobe. So, here is a list of things I have made copies of in my /home directory. My question, what may have I overlooked? Suggestions, please. Already backed up... - Firefox bookmarks - fstab - I piped lsmod and lspci to files - For NFS hosts.allow hosts.deny exports - For samba smb.conf - xorg.conf - ifcfg-eth0 - resolv.conf - menu.lst - piped df command to a file - made a backup of the .kde directory and contents I will format the / partition and do a clean install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoe Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 I would simply copy /etc and its descendants. Is approx 50 Mbyte on my system and contains the vast majority of configuration info. If you use grub: /boot/grub/menu.lst and any splash-screens defined in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camorri Posted June 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 I had forgotten about the splash screens. Copying /etc is a great idea, thank-you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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