Preparing to upgrade - some questions

[Carl Parrish]

Truls Gulbrandsen wrote:

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> Hi,
> I am preparing to upgrade from fc2 to fc3 and have made a backup of my
> /home directory.
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> Are there other directories or files that should be copied before I 
> upgrade?
>
> Will the upgrade option give me a complete installation or will it only
> upgrade files and modules already installed?
>
> If I do a complete new installation will it be sufficient to install
> additional programs such as gramps, thunderbird and firefox and then
> copy the content of /home back to the hd to make it all work with data,
> bookmarks and stored mail?
>
> Any thing else I should be aware of in order to restore my pc with fc3
> without too much trouble?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Truls Gulbrandsen
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I generally backup /home/, /etc/, /var/, /usr/local/, and /boot/ that 
way worst case I can always get right back to what I had. Of course if 
the new install works I don't recovers every partition.

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Carl Parrish(cparrish at carlparrish.com)
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