On 2007. 12. 21., Friday 05:39, Rodney Baker wrote: > On Friday 21 December 2007 14:48:27 Joe Sloan wrote: > > Chris Arnold wrote: > > > I use SLED SP1 and wonder if it is possible to upgrade from SLED to > > > 10.3 without losing data on the hard drive? If so, can someone > > > instruct me on how to do this? > > > > Do you really want to do that? sled is polished, it's a nice mature > > desktop. Sure, 10.3 will be more bleeding edge, newer packages, but I'm > > not sure I'd call it an "upgrade" - If you want to install a lot of new > > stuff though, os might be a better choice for you. > > With SLED unless you pay for a subscription you will only get security > updates/patches for a limited time. That is one reason to use openSuse for > personal/home use instead... > > > You can always do a fresh install, telling it not to touch your /home > > partition. I can't think of any reason why it shouldn't "just work", but > > OTOH 'm not sure an "upgrade" from sled to os is an officially supported > > action - but hey, it would be an interesting exercise. Be sure and let > > us know the results. > > I concur - almost. The problem with not formatting /home is that certain > hidden folders hold your personal config files that may differ between > versions. > > My advice (having done this recently going from another distro to 10.3) is > to: > > 1. Backup /etc to catch any custom configs that you may have done (e.g. > cron files, spam filter configs, X11 configs, samba configs etc) > 2. Backup your /home folders for each user of the machine > 3. Backup any other custom config files that you may need and any > downloaded files that you need to keep (e.g. for apps that you want to > reinstall that are not inlcluded in the distro) that are not stored in your > /home folder 4. Note the UID/GID for each existing user and group on the > machine. 5. If you're using a custom partition layout and you want to keep > it the same, print a copy of /etc/fstab (or just copy down the output from > 'mount') to refer to during the install. In my case I had 4 partitions that > had data stored (other than /home) that I wanted left alone and mounted in > the same place. > 6. Do a clean install formatting all partitions including /home. > 7. Recreate the users and any additional groups using the same UID/GID's as > before. You may get away with just copying back /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow > and /etc/group back from your backup but I prefer to recreate the users > specifying the UID/GID for each user/group. > 8. Merge any custom configs from your /etc backup to the relevant files on > the new install. > 9. Copy the user data from the /home backups to the new /home folders > (including files such as .procmailrc if you used it and things like configs > for evolution, kmail etc.). > 10. Test the system and make sure that you haven't missed anything. > > There may be others on the list with better suggestions but this process > worked for me. I just upgraded from FC6 to 10.3 by going through this > process and everything went pretty smoothly (with only a few minor glitches > that were easily sorted).
Steps 1 & 2: Look also into other directories. A lot of things are stored under /var, e.g. mysql databases in /var/lib/mysql, crontabs under /var/spool/cron etc. There is also the default web server directory under /srv/www/htdocs Tom -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
