On Maw, 2005-03-22 at 14:34, Jeremy Warren wrote: > I can hear the responses already.. "Don't do it! are you nuts..." but here > goes anyway..
I do this with Red Hat. It's not the right way to do things for a critical production environment but its more fun (In fact I've got a box running Fedora Core 3 that was last rebooted when Red Hat 9 came out). On systems that matter a bit more I bring up another PC (I guess another VM in 390 world), install on it and move /home straight over followed by any 'user' data directories. After that you can generally just copy over the relevant configuration from the /etc of the old machine. Unfortunately while the desktop tools can migrate entire desktops as XML dump files neither the Red Hat not SuSE configuration tools can do so to my knowledge. (ie you can't yast --dump >my.xml yast --import my.xml) For a live update back up /etc first and if you have the time do it a release at a time not all in one. Also when you update at least for Red Hat it is a good idea to upgrade rpm and the related tools as early as possible as you can get in an interesting tangle if there are packages wanting new rpm features. Alan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
