Preparing for FC5

[David Fletcher]

At 13:25 20/03/2006, you wrote:

>Hey mates,
>
>So, in waiting for FC5, can someone walk me in to a step-by-step 
>procedure as to what to do in order to be able to install FC5 on my 
>laptop, and still maintain all my settings, files, programs, etc?
>
>Thank you
>
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What I do is:-

tar everything in /home then copy the tar file somewhere very safe 
plus somewhere else very safe. Copy the tar file to a temporary 
folder maybe on another machine and make sure it unpacks OK.

Next record for all users the user name and user ID (the number that 
starts at 500 for the first user added).

Wipe the hard drive.

Boot from install CD 1 and install the new OS. Don't add any users.

yum -y update

As root copy the tar file back onto your machine unpack it into /home

Starting with user ID 500 and running through everybody in numerical 
order, re-create your list of users on the new installation. This 
will make all the file ownership attributes match the proper users. 
If you've got gaps in the order it should be possible to set the ID 
number manually.

Get your users to put their passwords back in.

Everything should now be as it was before, but running with the new OS.

Dave F