Well it looks like tonight is a possibility for upgrading to suse 9.3.
While I am essentially happy with setting up from scratch there are a
few files I want to back up first, here's all I can think of: fstab,
firefox bookmarks, and thunderbird address book. And I would probably
make a copy
Why are you thinking of starting from scratch?
(Yes it is a good isea to back up regulalry, esp before a major upgrade,
but you should be able to upgrade ratther than start from scratch)
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 06:50:00 +1200
Roger Searle wrote:
Well it looks like tonight is a possibility for
Given the disk space available, I'd save the lot!
Steve
On Fri, August 26, 2005 6:50 am, Roger Searle wrote:
Well it looks like tonight is a possibility for upgrading to suse 9.3.
While I am essentially happy with setting up from scratch there are a
few files I want to back up first, here's
yep, tarring it first as windows will not preserve ownership and
permissions.
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:57:17 +1200 (NZST)
Steve Holdoway wrote:
Given the disk space available, I'd save the lot!
Steve
On Fri, August 26, 2005 6:50 am, Roger Searle wrote:
Well it looks like tonight is a
Apart from the windows drives, is this saying that the linux install is
just on hdb7 and tmpfs?
Yes and no. tmpfs is just a ramdisk, no need to back that up. ;)
All your Linux stuff is in hdb7. If you change your partition layout,
put /home onto a seperate partition, because then you can
Reasons for starting from scratch:
i haven't spent ages configuring the system.
it's not critical to retain anything as is - i have redundancy in the
form of other machines, backups, and the option of booting that
particular machine into windows
i've messed up a number of things when playing
OK so I will make some tarfiles of the relevant folders. Having looked
at the man page I understand generally the command tar -NumerousOptions
directoryname but my next question is which options should I use? And
should that also include gzipping too? (The order of these options
seems to be
Fair enough, it is a good idea if you have screwed around with things.
I'll add that I did a SuSE upgrade on Sue (surname forgotten -
acquaintance of Rik)'s laptop, I think from 9.0 to 9.2 or something of
that order, and it worked just fine. Just slipped the DVD in, booted and
chose upgrade.
... the '-' is superfruous as well!
I'd go to the / directory and tar cfz /tmp/everything.tar.gz list of
everything there except for /tmp, /proc and /dev and then copy the result
to one of your win drives.
Having just compared a clean FC4 and an upgrade, the points made by Volker
abour moving
