On 2017-08-06 08:36, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Joachim Fahrner (j...@fahrner.name): > >> Am 2017-08-05 11:28, schrieb Weaver: >> >> >Currently running Debian SID, with separate /, swap, and /home >> >partitions. >> >I don't suppose switching is as easy as simply replacing the / >> >partition >> >with a new install, preserving the old data? >> >> Yes it is easy. Choose the same partition layout in the installer, >> but only format the root partition. Disable formatting on the home >> partition. After installation create the users as before, and all >> should work again as before. > > I second this excellent advice, except Weaver should carefully examine > the filesystems to be blown away, to spot any exceptions, which is to > say things that he might wish to preserve. > > When I was relatively new to Debian, I discovered that my server > installation included a few surprising directory locations, e.g.: > > 1. /usr/lib included critical GNU Mailman state files, the Apache > httpd's CGI-BIN directory, and a number of other such things > in addition to system libraries. > 2. /var included yet more critical GNU Mailman files, MySQL files, etc. > > It's accordingly well worth spending some time exploring the system > before accidentally blowing away something you might later miss. > > > There is a small chance that Weaver's homedir dotfiles / dotfile > directory contents from Sid might have problems on Devuan Ascii, > because of the effect of back-revving some codebases. For example, in > my experience GNOME's dotfiles / dotfile directories have poor backwards > compatibility (something my employer found out the hard way in the 2000s > when it tried to use GNOME Desktop with /home as an autofs network > share). It doesn't seem likely, but in the event of problems, (1) > crosscheck using a new test user, and if that user has no problems > but your regular user does, then (2) try again with the various dotfiles > and dotfile directories in ~ renamed to *.backup.
Thanks to all for different advices, and it would appear that there are enough differences to employ one of the many different drives I have lying round to do a separate install, with system wide, readable directories, then just transfer whichever files I want, being the easier option. Thanks to all for time and trouble. -- "It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." -- Thomas Paine Registered Linux User: 554515 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
