Viktor Chupryna wrote: >> As a matter of interest, what do you do after backing up your old /etc ? >> Do you just over-write the new /etc ? > > Not necessarily. You should pick and choose what configuration files you > want to keep from the old /etc. For example, if you've already customized > your old /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, you may want that back, or > /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/groups if you want to keep your old users > passwords and groups the same. It seems to me that this would take ages, and would entirely destroy the argument that it is "simpler" to re-install. I've always upgraded (including RH-9 to Fedora-1) and found it worked perfectly well. I had a serious hardware problem on my third-best computer the other day, and had to re-install. I found re-configuring the machine a little time-consuming. (The default firewall settings needed a few changes.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
