On Nov 11, 2007 9:16 PM, Christoph Maier
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>
> Another question, better to be asked before upgrading than in the middle
> of it, after something went crazy:
>
> What's the best way to archive an older version installation
> (in my case Fedora Core 6)
> with quite a few accumulated bells and whistles,
> such that I could recover it if I need to?
>
> I'm kind of short of disk space to keep the old OS in place until I know
> the new one works.
Not necessarily the best, but the easiest, is to buy another disk
drive. You then have at least three courses of action:
1) install the new OS on the external drive and use it from there.
2) copy the old OS to the external drive, then install new on the internal drive
3) like 1) but later swap the two drives, transplanting the new OS and
drive into the computer and moving the old OS and drive to the
external box.
To do 3) requires that the internal and external drives be
interchangeable at the physical interface level. i.e. both IDE/ATA or
both SATA. To do any of these requires that your computer has some
kind of data connection (USB or Firewire) for the external drive.
Any other approach requires more knowledge of how your existing disk
is partitioned, and whether over the years you have done the "right
thing" of keeping the added bells and whistles in a partition separate
from where the system resides.
carl
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