Re: data restore after an upgrade?

2016-05-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 05/11/2016 03:34 PM, c...@zip.com.au wrote: On 04May2016 16:42, Samuel Sieb wrote: 2) connect one of the old disks to the now new system via a USB to SATA adapter (note the machine only has usb 1.1) mount the disk and copy the data over. That wouldn't be so bad given the amount of data.

Re: data restore after an upgrade?

2016-05-11 Thread cs
On 04May2016 16:42, Samuel Sieb wrote: 2) connect one of the old disks to the now new system via a USB to SATA adapter (note the machine only has usb 1.1) mount the disk and copy the data over. That wouldn't be so bad given the amount of data. Even on 1.1? Haven't actually done the math for

Re: data restore after an upgrade?

2016-05-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 05/04/2016 04:01 PM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: The system has 4 SATA 1.0 interfaces, two are are in use for the two removable disks in the front of the case, the other two are inside the case and although not impossible to access they are a little difficult to access. The original system has 2 disk

Re: data restore after an upgrade?

2016-05-04 Thread fred roller
Forgive the top post, on my phone. If /home is all you want to preserve then create a partition sufficient for it's size. Move or copy the data, latter easier as you don't need to muck with the current file system. During the new build go to customize setup partitions and assign /home to the new

data restore after an upgrade?

2016-05-04 Thread Jeffrey Ross
Looking for some suggestions and thoughts. I am upgrading the OS on a system with older hardware that I have, it is currently running Fedora 16 and I'm looking to upgrade it to Fedora 23. The system has 4 SATA 1.0 interfaces, two are are in use for the two removable disks in the front of the