Something Between Upgrade and Fresh Install?
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. Randall Schulz
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)
* Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@bmarsh.com> [11-17-04 13:00]:
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.
FWIW, I agree completely. I have used this method ever since I left marmaDuked for SuSE 7.0. and make sure that you keep the old ver bootable, as you may want to return once or twice or sometime later. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 17:35, Randall R Schulz wrote: HI,
Hi,
UPS says my 9.2 upgrade box will arrive today. That's cool..
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.
Yep. You sure can. I'm assuming that your empty partition is big enough to hold the new install. It will even pick up the old partitions and you can make them bootable if you need to drop back. The upgrade version is the full version less one of the books. Installs just like the full version. Then at your leasure copy the configs that you want, along with any settings from your old home directory, and away you go. Have fun.. It's a nice update, even with the niggles some folks are having with the DVD. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 9.2 Kernel 2.6.8 KDE 3.3.0 Kmail 1.7.1 For Mondo/Mindi backup support go to http://www.mikenjane.net/~mike 7:45pm up 4 days 10:47, 5 users, load average: 2.10, 2.30, 2.66
Mike wrote:
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 17:35, Randall R Schulz wrote:
HI,
Hi,
UPS says my 9.2 upgrade box will arrive today.
That's cool..
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.
Yep. You sure can. I'm assuming that your empty partition is big enough to hold the new install. It will even pick up the old partitions and you can make them bootable if you need to drop back. The upgrade version is the full version less one of the books. Installs just like the full version. Then at your leasure copy the configs that you want, along with any settings from your old home directory, and away you go.
Have fun.. It's a nice update, even with the niggles some folks are having with the DVD.
Mike
Some people also had battle royal with the CD install also. The x86_64 XP3000+ laptop upgrade was a struggle, the XP3000+ x86 tower upgrade was traumatic, but I got there with a few incantations and eventually having to do a new install without formatting the partitions. A clean install from CD on a P-II/333 laptop 64M memory went silky smooth. Thanks for the DVD reminder, earlier today I was installing dosemu, then about an hour ago I hit the button on the cdrom, no DVD came out and I was poking inside to see if I could find where it was stuck, your DVD mention reminded me it was on the latop and not on this box - luckily as I was planning to power off, take the drive out and fish around for it, phew! Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====
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