Subject: backing up for upgrade
From: Murias O'Ceallagh (linux@dragonsblood.net)
Date: Wed Aug 22 2001 - 17:07:42 MDT
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ok,
Tomorrow night I plan on wiping the drive and upgrading to YDL 2.0.
Decided to bite the bullet and do this, too much started breaking. I
rely on this machine way too much to have something broken. ;)
I am tarballing just about everything on the drive, so I can get teh
important stuff onto the new partitioning map and so forth.
Is there anything that I should pay specific attention to? I am
tarballing the etc, home, var, boot and src directories. even making
sure I have backups of all tarballs and rpms I have downloaded (so I
don't have to download them again-time saver). I do have concerns as the
etc dir is where all my cfg files are, and I definitely want to tarball
the boot dir, cuse I have some kernels in there that I have compiled
myself. Are there any issues I can run into by doing this? I am
concerned about the kernels. Anything I should specifically do to make
sure these kernels can work when I am finished? I am tarballing the
/usr/src directory. Does anyone suggest that I tarball anything else?
All the tarballs I make are going to be burned to cd. Is there a
preferred format the cd to be in ie hfs or 9660?
Any and all insight, suggestions, and ideas would be considered, and
greatly helpful.
I thank all in advance.
;)
Murias
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