On 2014-06-09 00:17, Markus Egg wrote:
Am 08/06/14 23:51, schrieb Carlos E. R.:
Yes, the procedure is the same. However, a long jump has more posibilities of failing than a short one, and 12.1 - 13.1 never coexisted.
:-( So I should do 12.1->12.3 and then 12.3 to 13.1 ?
It's up to you. If you are very cautious, you would go to 12.2, then 12.3, then 13.1, in single steps. A bit bold, you jump to 12.3. Bolder, to 13.1 in a single step. Me, I would attempt 13.1 in a single step, but I would make sure of having a full backup, enough to restore anything from scratch.
I have a backup from today on USB3.0 disk, which contains $HOME and /var/spool/news If possible I would like to keep the $HOME files untouched (no format of any disk).
You can install fresh, formatting root, and not formatting home - provided they are separate partitions.
home and root are the same partition, both on the raid1 .
Oh, my. Then you have two roads: a) Attempt the upgrade (offline). b) Make a full backup. Install fresh, making sure of having a separate home this time. Restore data from the backup, and redo/restore system configs as needed or from backup. Notice that, as you said you use /var/spool/news, I would dedicate a special partition to it, using smaller sectors than default. Or use reiserfs.
Same goes for "news".
/var is on the SSD so that should be ok.
Hardly. The news spool typically creates thousands, even millions, of very small files. Each file requires one disk sector. And in the case of ssd (some one else will have to confirm), real internal sectors are about 32 KiB; that is, you can address a normal small sector of the standard size, but a write to one really writes the entire 32K. Somebody else would have to confirm this.
root was mounted on /dev/md126p2 /dev/md126p1 is a Win7 partition (dual boot). It's only one of those cheap raids on the motherboard.
I have no personal experience with them. Frankly, I intend not to ever use those mb :-p
AFAIK, kmail works, but people have reported problems with migrating email folders.
Seems to be the same problems I had on SuSE 12.1. So no change. :-(
You do have to migrate mails somehow, you can not keep using an old version for ever.
I don't know if it works now or not, I don't use kmail.
Can I simply use KMail from KDE 3.5.10? That would be enough.
Dunno, probably. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)