Short question: Is there a way that I can take the RPM database from an existing FC2 machine, plop it onto a new FC4 machine, and run some version of a 'yum update' to make sure all the packages I had installed on the old machine are installed on the new? Background: I lost a partition on my home server a short while ago. As a result, I've decided to replace the old drive with a pair of RAID-1 drives. The old machine is running FC2; I want to be at FC4. My plan was to take out the old drive completely, install PC4 on the pair of new drives, and migrate the old data over from the old drive. Ideally, I'd like to make sure the software I've installed on the old machine gets installed to the new one also. Is the old RPM database the key to this procedure? Thanks for your help, -Don
