On Monday 21 Mar 2005 18:10, Christopher Taylor wrote: > I am debating whether or not to upgrade to the 10.2 beta. Primarily > the updates in KDE are appealing and some of the others as well. I > know that I can get the iso's via bittorrent. Once burnt, how do I go > about doing the upgrade? My main concern making sure that I don't > lose any data. I can certainly backup my home directory to cd, but if > I have to setup the users again then the ids will be wrong. Thanks in > advance.
Christopher, from this I take it that you don't have your /home on a separate partition? We generally recommend having a separate partition because any reinstall or upgrade can leave that partition alone, so there's no possibility of losing data. If you have any spare space, make a new partition and get all your /home copied onto it. I seem to recall people saying that if you create a partition in Mandrake Control Center and say that you want it to be mounted as /home it will ask if you want your data copying across. Perhaps someone could confirm this? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels
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