On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:12:46 +0000, Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > My home is on a searate partition. I am just unfamiliar with the upgrade process. I started with a blank machine and let Mandrake do the rest. At installation, it created the 5 gig root, 1 gig swap, and 24 gig home partitions. I am not sure what files get upgraded and what files get left alone.
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