First, you should get a copy of the entire /etc directory, also backup anything that you have custom installed in /usr/local, and get a copy of /home. Preferably you should then burn these tar.gz files off to CD (if they are small enough) before starting the install just in case. Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems and Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, [X-UNKNOWN] Peņa Arellano Fabian Erasmo wrote: > Hello, > > I just downloaded LM 8.0 the last weekend and would like to move > from the 7.2 version to the 8.0 version. According to some messages I have > read in this list it seems safer to do a fresh install rather than > upgrading. > If I decide to install the 8.0 version, of course, I would not > like to lose the information on the accounts I already have on the > computer ( which are about ten ). Which files should I back up to have the > accounts working after installing the 8.0 version without having to open > them again ? Will backing up the following files be enough: > > /etc/passwd, > /etc/group, > /etc/shadow ? > > I have noticed there are also other files related with the last ones: > > /etc/passwd-, /etc/passwd.OLD, > /etc/group-, /etc/group.OLD, > /etc/shadow-, /etc/group.OLD. > > Should I back them up as well ? > Of course, I must avoid formating the /home/ partition in case I > decided to do a fresh install. > Thanks in advance for reading this e-mail. > > Fabian. > >
