... And i am pondering about what the ... to do with all the data. Its not like its "easy" to put about 40 GB of data into offline storage with only a cd-burner... Bah... Install other machines first, NFS dump to them, check what i already have offline, and then kill some data. tir, 09.11.2004 kl. 20.26 skrev Carl Parrish: > Truls Gulbrandsen wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi, > > I am preparing to upgrade from fc2 to fc3 and have made a backup of my > > /home directory. > > > > Are there other directories or files that should be copied before I > > upgrade? > > > > Will the upgrade option give me a complete installation or will it only > > upgrade files and modules already installed? > > > > If I do a complete new installation will it be sufficient to install > > additional programs such as gramps, thunderbird and firefox and then > > copy the content of /home back to the hd to make it all work with data, > > bookmarks and stored mail? > > > > Any thing else I should be aware of in order to restore my pc with fc3 > > without too much trouble? > > > > > > Thanks, > > Truls Gulbrandsen > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > > > iD8DBQFBkQdZickK29LSyG8RAiWqAKCFPVgegnMa5FQSnpbmGInUEB5pMgCglCnK > > WvIuQ/fW8Y4RKJh+roeNtmY= > > =30pZ > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > I generally backup /home/, /etc/, /var/, /usr/local/, and /boot/ that > way worst case I can always get right back to what I had. Of course if > the new install works I don't recovers every partition. > > -- > Carl Parrish(cparrish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > http://www.carlparrish.com > -- > Registered Linux User #295761 http://counter.li.org