James Laska wrote: > > > time. I'd be curious for your feedback on the current documented > upgrade method: > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f10/en_US/ch-upgrading-system.html > > The install-guide also recommends a partitioning scheme intended to > preserve user data by creating a separate '/home' partition [1]. This > doesn't quite meet your needs of preserving system configuration data in > '/etc'. If you end up repeatedly using the same authentication/user > > A couple of points: The first reference is really to an "upgrade" of an existing system - what I do is to do a clean install but leave the /opt partition ( and which contains a subdirectory home that I bind mount to /home in the root directory. Before configuring the new system a yum update is done to ensure any post release fixes are in place for the system as a whole. Also prior to doing an install of a newer system, I make a backup or /etc and /var and then run a clean install (which includes reformatting the / partition so it is really clean) rather than an upgrade. After that is complete the root partition contains a virgin installed system, and in the past I have then manually taken the user lines from the backup copies in /etc/passwd, /etc/group /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow and therefore restored the user login data. Then I bind mount the home directory from the /opt subdirectory to /home in the root partition and add a line to fstab to make it permanent. Then I go through the config files for ntp, named, dhcp etc etc as necessary copying back the configs from the backup files that were made before the the install. When I went to F10 from F9 I decided to do things a little differently since there were a lot of changes to KDE so I did not want the old KDE 3.5 configs lying around in the user areas, so I allowed the system to create new user areas with their /home directories in the root partition, and then copied these to new areas in the /opt partition (this also allowed the newer password hash method to be in place and so enhancing security!) - and tediously copied the rest of the user area files to the new home directories as well as things like the Firefox and Thundebird profile info into the new home directory areas. So an "upgrade" using a clean install does take some time - but it presumably results in a lower risk of problems appearing compared to running a simple yum upgrade - no doubt others will relate their own experiences in this kind of change? I had not though about storing passwords centrally since my use is mainly machines with only up to three or four users, and sometimes only a single user apart from root. However I would be interested in hearing how others achieve their change to newer versions of Fedora? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/F11-Preview---test-with-usbkey-tp23311298p23315885.html Sent from the Fedora Test List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
