On Monday, May 21, 2001, Rusty Carruth wrote:
> Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I have 7.2 installed now, and want to know what others have done, in
> > terms of a fresh install, or an upgrade. Anyone found problems with
> > upgrading, or will it be okay. This is my production box, and would
> > like some input... Thanks
>
> As I was just telling some friends - the best and safest way to upgrade
> is to make a boot floppy for the previous version, do a fresh install
> into a new, empty (or otherwise unused ;-) partition (on whatever
> drive you wish), followed by transferring configuration you need from
> the previous version, final tweaking, and then you're done.
Another solution if you have a CDR(W), but no spare hard drive, is to
tar and bzip2 your /etc, /var, and /home directories (be sure to use the
'p' option for tar to preserve file owners, permissions, etc.), and then
just burn those on a CD. After the install, just extract those into a
temp. directory, and proceed to copy as needed. This is how I did
mine... I already had /home on its own partition, but I wanted to switch
to reiserfs, and create /var and /usr partitions.
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