[K12OSN] upgrading k12ltsp
Burke Almquist
balmquist at mindfirestudios.com
Sun Dec 18 00:04:51 UTC 2005
The stuff in /home is all user data. So you should be able to just do
straight upgrades if you really would like. Lots of people on this
list back up their /etc directory where all the config files are and
parts of /var if they have websites or databases in there. Some just
to a whole backup, just to be safe, do a fresh install, and then put
their config files back. Bottom line: you shouldn't have to mess
with /home. (I can only think of a couple exceptions that have to do
with new versions of a program not dealing gracefully with old user
preference files. But then you only have to delete the pref file for
that program, not all of /home.
On Dec 17, 2005, at 1:21 PM, Carl Keil wrote:
> Can someone describe a good scheme for upgrading an install of
> k12ltsp? I'm running an FC3 based version right now. I'd like to
> upgrade very soon to whatever is stable right now. I have my /home
> directory on a different physical hard drive, but I'm wondering how
> that helps me now. I'm thinking that there must be stuff that gets
> changed in the /home directories for the new version. How do I
> update all that stuff while retaining the users' home data?
>
> So, what's the procedure here? I'm thinking of physically
> unhooking the /home directory drive in the computer, then
> installing k12ltsp as usual from disks on hda, then hooking back up
> hdb and pointing home at it in fstab but something tells me this
> won't work very well. Not to mention losing all the
> customizations. What do others do when upgrading? Somebody must
> have a really easy/foolproof set of instructions for this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> ck
>
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