Re: Red Hat 9 end-of-life and Red Carpet

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 05:51 +0300, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 13:15 -0400, Mark Gordon wrote: 
> > I tend not to trust upgrades between vendors.  If you have /home on a
> > different partition from / (and the same is true of any other
> > directories you need preserved), you can just do a clean install and not
> > reformat /home (and other such partitions).  Otherwise, you'll need to
> > tar up /home (and other such directories), store those files on another
> > box, do a fresh install, and restore the old directories.  I like to
> > back up /etc as well, though only for reference.  Things built from
> > source into e.g. /usr/local may well need to be rebuilt and reinstalled
> > on any OS upgrade, and things installed into /opt are similarly iffy.
> > Third-party software should probably be reinstalled.  That's pretty much
> > how I've done it.
> 
> Also you need to check that your user-id is the same on the new
> installation - on Suse 9.0 I think it defaulted to 500 and up for new
> users, while on redhat it has been from id number 1000 and up if I
> remember correctly. Thus you need to check your user-id on current
> setup (id <username> from the commandline, or with the user admin
> tool) and set it to be the same when you create the account on the new
> installation. Then untar the homedir - otherwise you need to change
> the file ownership by hand later.
> 
suse 9.0 and suse 9.1 both asked me if I wanted to change ownership on
my /home/rodrigo directory, which was there from the previous
distribution.

Not sure about other distros, but SuSE does that right. Which is,
indeed, a proof that having /home as a separate partition is a good
idea :-)

cheers

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