The CD will give you the option to either "upgrade" or "install". Choose install - works better than upgrade - that's what Stephen meant!On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 05:41, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
On Friday 01 October 2004 00:19, Merlin Zener wrote:
On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 00:21, Stephen K�hn wrote:
Two words:
CLEAN INSTALL
so that would involve reformatting both drives?
No, just the existing "/" and maybe "/usr" partitions. Leave all the others as they are!
If so, then I guess I'm in for a long backup session first... How should
I go about it? Could someone address these concerns for me?:
What kind of backup should I do first, just in case anything goes wrong? I'm guessing, simply copy anything that's in /home/merlin, but where else are things kept that I need to back up? What about Mozilla, Pan and Evolution - where do they keep their files? Is there a Linux equivalent of the registry that I should back up? [and would it work with 10.0 anyway?]
They're all in your home directory i.e. "/home" partition.
and something I just thought of: How do I get my mail back into Evolution after the backup/reformat/reinstall process?
They'll still be there if you haven't formatted your "/home" partition
Oh, and I just thought of another thing: If I have to reformat my Windows drives, should I reinstall windows first before installing Mandrake 10.0? And, I seem to recall there's something about NTFS that makes it so Linux and Windows can't access the same files - so should I take the opportunity and redo Windows in FAT32 or something?
Whatever you want, but I'd leave everything "as is" and use the FAT32 a a sort of transit-space from ext3 to ntfs and back.
thanks for your thoughts. How, exactly, do I only format certain partitions? Does the installer on the 10.0 CD give me this option? Or do I have to use some other software?
The CD will also give you the choice of which partitions to reformat - leave /home alone, plus any windows partitions, and reformat the rest. Make sure you back up /home before you start, just in case there's a power cut or some other disaster that interrupts the process - but there's 99.99% chance you will still have your /home intact after the install is finished.
When the installation reaches the part about going on to the internet and installing updates, say no! It's much better to do this with urpmi once you've rebooted - gives you more control.
Good luck!
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