At 13:25 20/03/2006, you wrote:
Hey mates,
So, in waiting for FC5, can someone walk me in to a step-by-step
procedure as to what to do in order to be able to install FC5 on my
laptop, and still maintain all my settings, files, programs, etc?
Thank you
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What I do is:-
tar everything in /home then copy the tar file somewhere very safe
plus somewhere else very safe. Copy the tar file to a temporary
folder maybe on another machine and make sure it unpacks OK.
Next record for all users the user name and user ID (the number that
starts at 500 for the first user added).
Wipe the hard drive.
Boot from install CD 1 and install the new OS. Don't add any users.
yum -y update
As root copy the tar file back onto your machine unpack it into /home
Starting with user ID 500 and running through everybody in numerical
order, re-create your list of users on the new installation. This
will make all the file ownership attributes match the proper users.
If you've got gaps in the order it should be possible to set the ID
number manually.
Get your users to put their passwords back in.
Everything should now be as it was before, but running with the new OS.
Dave F
