Preparing for FC5
jdow
jdow at earthlink.net
Tue Mar 21 00:37:22 UTC 2006
From: "Styma, Robert E (Robert)" <stymar at lucent.com>
>> >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
>> 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
>
> I do one more thing besides the above. I make a tar of /etc from the
> old system. While you can NOT just reload it, it provides many useful
> settings that you will want to look at when setting up the new machine.
> Such as, your smb.conf file, data from your sshd.conf file, /etc/hosts,
> /etc/hosts.deny, /etc/hosts.allow, httpd.conf file, password, group,
> where to put the vnc lines in your xorg.conf file, etc.
And given the perplexities of bind I find I also have to make an
archive if /var/named these days. <gigasigh>
{^_^}
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