On 17/10/06 14:26 +0530, sastry wrote: > I am getting the urge to replace my HDD on this machine - which is a dual > boot Fedora Core 1 and Windows XP. > > The last time I did this I merely migrated all the files to the new (current) > HDD using linux commands that I read up on the net and cannot recall now. The
dd, cp, rsync ... > Windows copy was particularly sweet - the OS did not even know that it was > sitting somewhere else and booted first time. > > This time I need to install a different version of Linux - or Fedora < higher > number > because I need new features currently absent from this > installation. > > But I want all my files intact. > > So how do I do that? Most of your custom configurations will stay in ~ (That's /home/<loginname>) as dot-files (leading '.'). Merely backing up and restoring $HOME should be good enough. > > Can my kmail archives survive a change to Ubuntu or something? > As long as they are in $HOME, and you do not touch $HOME, they won't be affected. > What Linux should I install (for a user who is more dumb than smart). > To be honest, anything that supports the hardware you have is good enough. Devdas Bhagat
