I do very much the same thing: save everything in /etc, /root and /home to a separate drive that is untouched by the upgrade, then do a full install, formatting all partitions except /home. I only do this on major x.0 releases; for x.y releases I just upgrade. It works very well. It's nice because it keeps my system from accumulating too much cruft, which I've known to cause problems in the past when you update across several releases. Raul jdow wrote: > My habit these days after upgrading a couple times and finding that > after the second upgrade pass I "found it severely wanting". I save > off all the user home directories, create a savers directory on the > /home partition and copy (cp -a) over the critical configuration > information from the machine, the etc directory and the scattered > files in /var like the named setup. Don't forget the /root directory > in your savers. > > Then I perform a full install formatting every partition except the > /home partition. After that I use the saved data to reconfigure the machine > so that it is usable again. This takes longer than an update. Plan out a > substantial part of a day for it in extreme cases or your first time. (I've > done it in an hour plus the install time when I prepared well. The second > update left the machine needing more than that hour's work before it was > usable. That's why I quit updating rather than installing fresh.) The > hardest point is getting all your users back into the new machine. I've > found that it is not always possible to simply copy over the /etc/passwd > and related files. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
