FC3 -> FC4 Fresh install, keeping /home

[Tony Nelson]

At 8:47 AM -0500 7/31/05, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 05:05:09AM -0400, David Niemi wrote:
>> Finally going to bite the bullet and update my main machine, one
>> question though.
>>
>> How will I have to handle existing user directories and information on
>> the /home partition if I do a fresh install of FC4?  What will happen
>> when during the first run I have to create a user and this user's
>> directories etc already exists? I am going to back up all the
>> information to DVD anyway as well as leaving copies on other partitions.
>>
>> Also, will my raid0 drive (data drive) cause / be a problem?
>>
>Back up all the critical directories, /home, /root and maybe /var if
>you have mail there, into tar file/ Store the files somewhere where
>they can be accessed later (a RW CD maybe). Install the new operating
>system. Then untar the tar files using the -k option. This option
>does not install files with the same name in the directory. Or untar
>the tar file in /tmp and copy files from the old etc, for example,
>that you want to retain.
>
>These two re-install methods will do the job.

Also back up /etc.  You might need it if settings get munged, to have
something to compare with.

There's probably some other important directories, but I haven't done this
yet myself, so I don't have the benefit of (harsh) experience.
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