On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 09:59 -0700, Dennis Bagley wrote: > I am sorely tempted to replace the Suse distro in my office with Ubuntu. > The only thing holding me off is the time to fully backup all my > critical stuff and re-install everything I'm using. (I know St. Murphy > is going to double any time I plan for it and I don't have a lot of time > to spare at the moment.)
Bah! Why back up? Go to newegg.com and order the largest hard disk you can afford, say a 400GB, and drop it in as the primary disk. Disconnect the old disk, perform the Ubuntu install. Now you can either: 1) Copy your old home directory to the new disk 2) Use the old disk as your home directory You are going to have to reinstall apps like VMware anyway, but if you are doing things the "UNIX way(TM)", everything should be in /home, and all you gotta do is copy or mount it. Mark -- Mark C. Ballew Reno, Nevada [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://markballew.com PGP: 0xB2A33008 AIM: pdx110
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