Christoph Maier wrote: >.. > Another question, better to be asked before upgrading than in the middle > of it, after something went crazy: > > What's the best way to archive an older version installation > (in my case Fedora Core 6) > with quite a few accumulated bells and whistles, > such that I could recover it if I need to? > > I'm kind of short of disk space to keep the old OS in place until I know > the new one works.
Maybe someone else will offer other suggestions, but I suspect this is a case where you my wish to get one of those external usb/firewire HD's for $100-160 and make a full dd copy of the quiescent filesystem (booted from Knoppix, say). I suspect the value of your system (bells & whistles, configured) may be more than that of many users. So it's more than just saving your data, eh? ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
