On Friday 08 April 2005 03:28 pm, RBW wrote:
> The downside (but not too much) was that
> you had to keep a list of add on things installed which had to be
> re-installed.

before you fire up the new install:

rpm -qa > installed_packages.txt

(well, at least for rpm-based systems.)

I generally copy off /etc and /var, and leave /home and /usr/local alone.

Gregory

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