On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:54:35 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: > You don't mention the procedure that I use. I have two RAID devices > that I use for root filesystems (including /home). At any given time, > one of them is the production system, and the other one is usually the > previous version of Red Hat Linux/Fedora Core. When the time comes to > "upgrade", I do a fresh install on the "non-production" device, which > becomes the new production system. Then I selectively copy files and > directories from the previous system to the new one. Since the old > system stays around for a long time, there's next to no chance that I'll > forget to migrate anything. Is a primitive version of that feasible? I have two separate machines behind the same router, and do something similar; but I'm nobody's technoid, and don't even have them networked. I'm wondering if I (or anybody in similar circumstances) could cobble together a way to make these two old clunkers pass files back and forth -- configurations, bookmarks, etc. -- without two or three years' work learning enough computer science to set up a real LAN ... -- Beartooth Autodidact, curmudgeonly codger learning linux Remember I know precious little of what I'm talking about!
