On Wednesday 17 November 2004 11:35 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
UPS says my 9.2 upgrade box will arrive today.
I'm wondering if there's a way to do what is basically a clean install to a currently empty partition while copying configuration information from an existing installation. The intention is to leave my existing installation untouched but to create a new installation that is like an updated form of my existing installation.
Lacking such a directly supported option, can anyone suggest a way to manually effect such an installation? Some way to copy all the local configuration modifications (relative to an unmodified base installation) from a working 9.1 installation to a newly installed 9.2 installation?
Any ideas are welcome.
What you want to do is what I do for every install.... 1) Leave *all* of the old partitions intact. 2) Make new partitions for the new release. 3) Install fresh. 4) Do a manual configuration of 'lots of little things' (and take good notes for next time) The advantages are many: 1) You learn a lot. 2) You find out what new features are (but looking at the config files) 3) You clean out a lot of old garbage, unused apps, etc. 4) You get to resize and re-org as needed. I find it takes about a half a day to reconfig my main machine, and there is a lot to do... postfix, a Moxa serial card, fetchmail, procmail, mysql, etc.... But doing it fresh is waaaay worth it for me. 1)