Changing distributions
Hi all, Would just like to find out if I can safely install Suse 8.2 over a Mandrake 9.0 installation and keep the email and auto-import it into the Mozilla/Phoenix mail client? I should hopefully get Suse 8.2 in the coming week and I cannot afford to lose email if I change distributions. Ideas/Comments? -- ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Registered Linux user # 229959 Using Linux Mandrake 9.0 with KDE 3 on a 2.4.19-16mdk kernel Licenced Windows user ========================================================================
On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 12:32, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Hi all,
Would just like to find out if I can safely install Suse 8.2 over a Mandrake 9.0 installation and keep the email and auto-import it into the Mozilla/Phoenix mail client?
I should hopefully get Suse 8.2 in the coming week and I cannot afford to lose email if I change distributions.
Ideas/Comments?
It depends on you current setup. If your /home is on it's own partition, then you can install SuSE and during installation, you make sure that the /home mount point is set to that partition, and that the partition will not be formatted. (I did this when I moved from RedHat to SuSE. I kept all my mail and settings of applications) If you do not have a separate /home partition, you can just backup your own home directory (or just the mail folders) and then restore it again after you installed SuSE. I assume that you are currently using Mozilla/Phoenix mail client. HTH -- Andre Truter Software Engineer Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 AIM: trusoftzaf http://www.trusoft.za.net <-------------------------------------------------> < The box said: Requires Windows 95 or better... > < So I installed Linux > <------------------------------------------------->
On Sunday 04 May 2003 05:32, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Would just like to find out if I can safely install Suse 8.2 over a Mandrake 9.0 installation and keep the email and auto-import it into the Mozilla/Phoenix mail client?
The safest way would probably be to backup your email, then reload it to your machine after installing Suse.
Hi man ! Please save your home directory, you will save all the informations concerning your own data, like your email. After that, just import from your cd the .foo to your new home directory, if there is no incompatibility, you will keep your emails Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Hi all,
Would just like to find out if I can safely install Suse 8.2 over a Mandrake 9.0 installation and keep the email and auto-import it into the Mozilla/Phoenix mail client?
I should hopefully get Suse 8.2 in the coming week and I cannot afford to lose email if I change distributions.
Ideas/Comments?
participants (4)
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Andre Truter
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arnaud kubacki
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Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
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Michael Satterwhite