On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 20:46 +0000, Mike wrote: > Although I am currently running KDE4.04 on F9 in which I allowed the user > area to be created from scratch during install (or using useradd) after > the install, I have a question as part of advance planning for when I > upgrade other systems which have pre-existing user areas in F8. > > Does anyone have any experience in installing F9, and then copying back > pre-existing user directories from their original F8 files. By "user area" I assume you mean home directories. The answer is yes, that's basically what you do and it basically works. In fact I can't think of any other way to do it that wouldn't involve immense tedium. > What I mean by this is that the F9 install is done without creating > any users apart from root. Then the appropriate user lines are added > back into passwd, group, shadow and gshadow in /etc and then the > pre-existing files from /home/user1 /home/user2 and so on are copied > back into /home from backup. If this is done and then one of these users > logs in to KDE4.x using only pre-existing files that were from KDE3.5 > in the earlier system, then > a) will the user be able to successfully login to KDE4.0x? Yes. > b) if the user can login will there be any nasty consequences from > the fact that the kde config files relate to the previous 3.5 files? I haven't seen any so far, but of course YMMV. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
