[K12OSN] hard drive upgrade

[Liam Marshall]

At 12:50 PM 12/11/2004, you wrote:
>On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 12:17, Liam Marshall wrote:
> > I forgot to add, will this how to work if the users home directories are
> > buried in the /home directory?   ie /home/grade1/user1.....user2.....etc
>
>If you stick to the same distribution version you should be able
>to just copy the whole /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group (and add
>/etc/gshadow).  If you upgrade distributions, you may have some
>new or different users for systems services so you should probably
>edit the files, keeping the newly created users below uid 500
>and adding your old ones above uid 500.   As long as the location
>of your home directories is the same on the new system as the
>old, everything should work.  The only system reference to this
>location is in /etc/passwd.  You can also move the location of
>any home directory and adjust the reference in /etc/passwd if you
>want to change the layout.
>
>---
>   Les Mikesell
>     les at futuresource.com
ok,  but do I want to upgrade?  Any real advantages to 4.1.1 or is 4.2 out 
of beta and just spectacular?