I know what you mean by saying it would be nice to have an option to
preserve the users' settings. I have read a couple of posts here where
others have mentioned that also.
As far as "backing-up" my user info, and other configuration files. I
usually don't care that much about my individual user account, because
whatever I wipe out, It's nothing that I cant put back. But, I usually
just write a shell script that back's up all of the configuration files
that I want for programs, and some of my files, and then tar's them up so
that I can burn it to a cd, or transfer it somewhere else temporarily.
I will be tempted to do this again...and I probably will. I'll just
upgrade first, see how things are, and then i'll go ahead and do a clean
install.
Scott,
I like to do "clean installs" too... I did that when I installed FCT2 and
FCT3, and will when FC1 is out as well. Right now I don't care if I
reformat
the entire drive... I bought a second drive just for the purpose of
running
Linux.... but when Linux starts actually replacing my Windows system, I
won't have the luxury of simply reformatting the entire disk....
What do you do to preserve the contents of /home and other directories?
I wish there were an option in the install process that allowed
"everything
to be wiped out" except for the user stuff.
I suspect this is easier said that done though because apps might have a
tendency to put stuff in various directories... like maybe a certain app
installs fonts it needs.... I might not want those put in the X11
directory,
but that might be "convenient" for the app....
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-test-list-admin(a)redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-test-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Scott Ware
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 10:33 AM
> To: fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com
> Subject: Re: upgrade from RH9 to Fedora
>
>
> For some odd reason...I always usually to a clean install when a new
> distro or version comes out, just so I can test it as if I was just
> installing it for the 1st time. But when FC comes out, I think that i'll
> just do an upgrade from FC3, what i'm running now.
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