On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 10:57, Christopher Stone wrote: > OT: but why do you want to do a fresh install instead of just upgrading?
maybe he/she will shift to another distro which is one of my plans .. can these be possible? especially if our server is using samba as our PDC machine.. can i store the setup?
maybe they have a policy of not overwriting a working system - but they want to get a seperate system (on a second disk) working first. Then if the new system had problems, they can just go straight back to the old system - because they did not 'upgrade' it.
This is what I do, having my disks in caddies...
Doing an 'upgrade' would be simpler I'm sure, until something goes wrong. Then I'm thinking: well, was the new version installed correctly or is there really a problem in the new version... ?
No, I'd rather start from scratch and know whats on my disks... and have a spare disk with a known working system on it...
John.
ps. my answer to the original question - I do exactly what you suggest and it works for me. But I do keep a lot more files:
./etc ./etc/sysconfig ./etc/sysconfig/network-scripts ./etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 ./etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 ./etc/sysconfig/network ./etc/sysconfig/dhcpd ./etc/sysconfig/rhn ./etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date ./etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources ./etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date-keyring.gpg ./etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid ./etc/sysconfig/i18n ./etc/rc.d ./etc/rc.d/init.d ./etc/rc.d/init.d/network ./etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables ./etc/rc.d/init.d/milter-spamc ./etc/rc.d/rc.local ./etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit ./etc/X11 ./etc/X11/XF86Config ./etc/httpd ./etc/httpd/conf ./etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf ./etc/mail ./etc/mail/local-host-names ./etc/mail/sendmail.mc ./etc/mail/virtusertable ./etc/mail/access ./etc/hosts ./etc/hosts.allow ./etc/hosts.deny ./etc/resolv.conf ./etc/dhcpd.conf ./etc/group ./etc/passwd ./etc/shadow ./etc/motd ./etc/crontab ./etc/inittab ./etc/sysctl.conf ./etc/modules.conf ./etc/aliases ./etc/ssh/sshd_config ./etc/profile ./etc/cron.daily ./etc/logrotate.d ./etc/yum.conf ./etc/smartd.conf ./usr/lib/powerchute/powerchute.ini
NB. ignore leading '.'
basically, I keep ALL the config files I ever change.
and then I can use them directly or as a reference in the new system...
and I keep all this (and /home) on a second disk, so I only need to re-install
over the first 'system' disk.
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