[Novices] upgrade installation

[Eric Beversluis]

Update: the backup/replacement from /home/eric went fine. A couple of
points of interest for others:

--where did you store your tarballs of downloaded programs that you
would want to reinstall? I needed to re-download a few things because I
hadn't saved them in my home directory.

--my backup was the file I have been keeping with rsync. rsync seems to
be additive and doesn't delete things that no longer exist when you
update the file with rsynch. Result: I got a bunch of old things
(documents, both in my home file and on my desktop, and even old
Evolution mail folders)--this can cause confusion if one doesn't realize
what they are.

--and, of course, one will have to change the owner of the backup
materials since you are not the old you any more (with a clean install
anyway--likely an update that saved the old home file wouldn't need
this).

EB

On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 09:06 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> I'm about to upgrade my Mandrake 10.1 to Mandriva 2006. I'm not sure
> exactly what I do about my home directory: How much of what the new
> install creates should I keep and how much should I replace with the
> backup of my current home directory? 
> 1.  Presumably I create a user (ericb) when I do the install.
> 2.  If so, do I then copy the entire contents of my old /home/ericb
> directory, replacing what Mandriva has created, or do I need to keep
> some of the new stuff? If so, what? (Initial hypothesis: just copy the
> documents and documents directories and let Mandriva manage the hidden
> files and folders? This doesn't seem quite right because, for example,
> my email is in the .evolution folder. )
> 
> EB
> 
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