Edgy upgrade question

[Vincent]

No, it's too big. But I'll probably find some way to do it...

On 9/21/06, Foxy <foxy at on-the-hill.me.uk> wrote:
>
> Vincent wrote:
> > Well, making the backup is not the problem, it's just that I don't have
> > an external harddrive, nor a CD or DVD burner, so I'd have to upload it
> > somewhere.
> >
> > On 9/21/06, * Foxy* <foxy at on-the-hill.me.uk
> > <mailto:foxy at on-the-hill.me.uk>> wrote:
> >
> >     Vincent wrote:
> >      > Hmm.. OK, I might just do that, just need to find a place to
> >     backup my
> >      > files to (and find out how to re-use my home partition).
> >      >
> >      > Thanks!
> >      >
> >      > On 9/21/06, *Harold Aling * < h.aling at home.nl
> >     <mailto:h.aling at home.nl> <mailto:h.aling at home.nl
> >     <mailto:h.aling at home.nl>>>
> >      > wrote:
> >      >
> >      >     Vincent wrote:
> >      >     > Yes, but my problem is: I don't know which packages I
> >     installed from
> >      >     > alternative repositories.
> >      >
> >      >     I upgraded my Dapper to Edgy yesterday and I now have ~200
> >      >     packages that
> >      >     want to be uninstalled, including lots of system libraries. I
> >      >     hosed half
> >      >     of my system before noticing it...
> >      >
> >      >     So if I'd were you, I'd backup your self-modified /etc files
> >     and your
> >      >     /home/<username> and go for a fresh install!
> >      >
> >      >     Although I had some problems with the installer of Knot 3...
> >      >     * Unable to select "no localization", so I selected "English"
> >      >     * Partitioner doesn't start 99% of the time
> >      >     * Random hangs when clicking forward so I've started then
> >     installer
> >      >     dozens of times...
> >      >
> >      >     When you do get edgy running, things are much smoother...
> >      >
> >      >     -H-
> >      >
> >      >
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> >      >
> >      > --
> >      > Vincent
> >     there was a HOWTO about backing up a home directory. Frankly
> speaking
> >     you can just tar gzip it and burn on the dvd. Also it is a good idea
> to
> >     back up any customised files from you /etc and maybe you
> sources.list to
> >     keep track of unofficial repos you use. Once you've done it you may
> >     start installing Edgy. When you reach partitioning part do not
> reformat
> >     you home partition and assign it to /home. Reformat your root
> partition
> >     and that's it. If anything goes wrong you still have a backup of you
> >     home directory.
> >
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> > --
> > Vincent
> >
> is your /home dir big? You can use USD stick for example if it is not
> very big.
>
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