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. -- ======================================================================= If you try to please everyone, somebody is not going to like it. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
