-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all. Only after looking at LDP and Google did I decided to write this, so if you know of a fsking manual for me to read, I'd love to of hear it! (Programs like rsync don't sound like they could update *everything*.) Say I have box1 & box2. I've just done something drastic like upgrade box1 to the python 2.1.1, kernel 2.4.8, mozilla, KDE2.2 (which, for my mandrake system at least, entails upgrading everything from gcc on up), etc, etc, etc. Now, I don't want to do *ALL* that over again on box2. What would happen if: I tarballed *all local* directories on box1 except /home, /dev & /mnt and ftp'd it over to box2, untarred it all, and after re-creating the proper box-specific files, ran lilo. If disk space on box2 was tight, I could "push" the individual files over from from box1 via NFS, but might that bomb after I pushed over the nfs config files? Or, since NFS is already running on box2, would it not care? Here (for a mandrake system) are the box specific files I can think of: /etc/lilo.conf /etc/fstab /etc/mtab /etc/sysconfig/network /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /etc/modules.conf /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 nfs config files /etc/smb.conf /etc/shadow /etc/smbpasswd I could put them in a tarball in /home before The Big Untar, then untar the config files afterwards. Of course, I could yank the HD out of box1 and Ghost it onto box2, but that's blech, especially if either box is Difficult To Get To. Ron - -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | | | | 495,632 sq mi are needed for 6 billion people to live, 4 ! ! persons per lot, in lots that are 60'x150'. | ! That is ~ California, Texas and Missouri. ! ! Alternatively, France, Spain and The United Kingdom. | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7mwfqjTz5dS9Us5wRApl7AJ9y3Bjh+RG02cLe7TGlEghqAY26JQCfXGni +63nMcCFpAthsTggWrBsj5U= =Me0A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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