On Monday 05 March 2007 20:52, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> * Tim (xendistar@???) wrote:
> > I am going to change distro, so I want to make sure that I have
> > everything on my list of things to save before I wipe the disk.
> >
> > My list so far:
> >
> > home folder (email\video\pictures\mp30\docs etc.)
> > smb.conf
> > xorg.conf (for ref.)
> > bookmarks
> >
> > I intend to save everything to a usb external drive, then wipe the PC
> > disk and install afresh, then pull what I need, back off the usb drive.
> >
> > I have already booted the PC from the live disk version, and everything
> > seems to work ok
> >
> > Anything you think I missed?
>
> When I have done this, I normally just save /home and /etc. It may
> be worth saving your grup/lilo config if that is in a different
> location. (/boot) Also, if you have a web server running, that may
> have doc root at /var/www
>
> Basically I would recommend that you take your time, list everything
> that you run now, and make sure you know where/how it is configured
> and the location of any data files that it may use. If this is a
> Desktop, it will be simpler, but if you run servers it will get more
> complicated.
>
> That said, I tend to quickly save the big stuff, and then pile in
> and wipe the disk. Once committed, just work through the issues :-)
>
> What distro are you moving from/to?
From debian testing to Mepis 6.05, been running it on another PC for a few
weeks and everything seem to be ok. I am not running a server on this PC so
that helps.
I am a bit like you Phil, I will think about it for a while and then just go
for it, this time I though I would try and do it properly. I will probably do
it next weekend.
Tim
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