RBW wrote:
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Heck...
I was trying to get with the program, so to speak. My usual method is to
do what I used to call a "lobotomy upgrade", that is to save off the
personal/modified/specialized stuff blow the system away and install
from scratch.
I'd just come to the same conclusion after I noticed that a whole bunch
of packages are still fc4. My big issues are VMWare, the Haldaemon and
ndiswrappers for my WPC55AG wireless card. My other big issue is where I
put all the 3rd party apps etc. over time. I have learned to install
most everything to /home/userdir so eyballing what was before should be
OK. There is just something about the incrementalism of upgrading that
is uncomfortable even though it is fun (and no where near what the
masses would put up with).
For the backup, /home is obvious as is /etc the only other partition I
see as required is /opt where a few apps wanted to install. Am I missing
anything critical other than those?
I post what happens next...
Thanks for the tips!
VMware won't be a problem. Just be sure you save your license found in
~/.vmware and then reinstall from the VMware rpm. The hal daemon is part
of the distribution so I don't think anything needs to be done there.
For ndiswrapper, the parts that need saving are the ndis INF and SYS
files from the M$ Windows drivers. carl and I just helped a guy get
ndiswrapper working with Puppy Linux on an old laptop with a cheap Fry's
Aironet card, so we could probably get yours up and running too.
For non-packaged 3rd party apps, well... You're on your own :)
I don't know how old your hard drive is, but this could be a good excuse
to buy a new one. I did that about six months ago and I got a huge
performance boost plus a lot quieter plus more than twice the storage
for about $130. The same drive sells for about $100 today. I did the
install on the new drive, then used a USB-IDE adapter (about $15-$20, or
I'll let you borrow mine) to connect the old drive and copy my data over.
Gus
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