Re: FC3 -> FC4 Fresh install, keeping /home

akonstam_at_trinity.edu
Date: 07/31/05

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    Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 08:47:00 -0500
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 05:05:09AM -0400, David Niemi wrote:
    > Finally going to bite the bullet and update my main machine, one
    > question though.
    >
    > How will I have to handle existing user directories and information on
    > the /home partition if I do a fresh install of FC4? What will happen
    > when during the first run I have to create a user and this user's
    > directories etc already exists? I am going to back up all the
    > information to DVD anyway as well as leaving copies on other partitions.
    >
    > Also, will my raid0 drive (data drive) cause / be a problem?
    >
    Back up all the critical directories, /home, /root and maybe /var if
    you have mail there, into tar file/ Store the files somewhere where
    they can be accessed later (a RW CD maybe). Install the new operating
    system. Then untar the tar files using the -k option. This option
    does not install files with the same name in the directory. Or untar
    the tar file in /tmp and copy files from the old etc, for example,
    that you want to retain.

    These two re-install methods will do the job. 

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