Edgy upgrade question

Matías Szeftel mszeftel at yahoo.com.ar
Thu Sep 21 19:24:10 UTC 2006


I don't know if you did this, but next time consider making a separate
/home partition. It can really make thinks more simple when re-installing.
> 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
> <mailto: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>
>     > <mailto: 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>>
>     <mailto: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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> -- 
> Vincent 


	
	
		
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