On Tuesday 26 October 2004 07:47, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Bob S wrote:
(Should I use "virtual" drives to avoid the hassle of determining partition sizes?)(right now I have six different partitions for 8.2)
I wouldn't, but you could if you so choose.
I was only worrying about enough space for the different partitions like "var" for instance. Think I will take a look at my present partitions to see how full they are and adjust accordingly.
One thing that bothers me is when I plug in the windoz hd (W98) it will be in a comletely new environment. Hope I don't have to reinstall windows to get at my saved files on that disk. What do you all think about that?
If you are talking about access to the disk, you won't have any problems. If you mean running win98, you may have some driver problems for the new hardware (doubt you will find win98 drivers for a 64 bit machine)
Ummm,I am really not concerned about Windoz but won't it run in 32 bit mode on that hardware? and if I heard you correctly, what you are saying is that as long as the disk is there I will be able to access it, even if Windoz is not installed ?
Preparing for this, I have been doing kdar backups of my /home partition and some other /data partitions which I want to keep onto the other drive in my old system. (hda, as above)
Why are you going to wipe them. That is the whole reason to make them a separate partition, you can just leave them as is.
Well right now they are mixed ext2 and ext3. Wouldn't I have to wipe it to format it?
Now, after installing 9.2 onto hdb I will need to restore my /home and the other / partiions which I have saved-backed up.
Are you saying your /home, /data, etc., are on the 6G drive, and you need to copy them to the 80G?
Yes, Just the backups though. I save my kdar backups to the other disk in case I have a disk failure.
I guess the first order of business would be to install kdar since it would have been wiped with the repartioning process. Not sure about this but I think I can pick and choose from the backup on hda to my new partitions on hdb.
You can choose what you format, and what mount point, etc. during the install. I think this will be easier than you are thinking.
OK, but what I was really asking is some files should be restored and some not, for instance .kde which would have a lot of old 8.2 stuff in it which may or may not screw things up. I am already running KDE 3.3.1. Would be nice to just copy everything over but I worry about some compatibilities. I need to keep some things like my addressbook intact.
Next, (or before) I would have to go and download apt, right? It is a different version for 9.0 and higher than my 8.2 version I think.
Yes, it is a different version and arch. I doubt there will be much available for apt initially for 9.2 x86_64. You may need to grab the src.rpm from 9.1 and build apt yourself.
OK I could do that but, again, will the hardware not accept 32 bit applications ?
I have always thought that apt and Yast2 were mutually exclusive, You can only use one or the other, but lately on the list people have been saying they can use both.
I have been using apt, Yast, and fou4s with no problems, since they are all a frontend to rpm.
That is good. Then I can do my initial update of the new install with Yast and then use apt for the stuff that is not readily available on Yast?
Question is: Am I going about this in the right way?
IMHO it will be easier than you are planning for, which is better than the other way a round.
Thanks for the interest and opinions Joe. I have done upgrades and new installs but never at the same time as installing on a new machine which adds another factor into the equation.
Bob S.