Re: [Nolug] Moving a user from Red Hat 8 to Fedora 1

On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 03:28, Mischa Krilov wrote:
> Hello, gang.
>
> This week, I plan to move my girlfriend from her old computer (running
> Red Hat 8) to a new one running Fedora 1. On the one hand, I want to
> copy her whole home directory over to the new machine and see what
> happens. On the other, I want to do this right and have it work.

/home is it's own partition, right?

> I've done this dozens or hundreds of times for Windows users and boxen,
> but I'm less familiar with this sort of upgrade/migration for a Linux
> user. Most of my personal upgrades have been more of the organic
> in-place upgrades you do to a system over time: patch this, install the
> new KDE that, here's a new kernel there, oh let me get the latest
> version of this other app. I don't think there's anything overly
> complicated going on in this situation, but I wanted to bounce my
> assumptions off yall's heads.
>
> I've already got OpenOffice.org 1.1 on her current machine, so I'm
> covered there. Mozilla won't offer me too many surprises either- I plan
> to just move the bookmark file and I should be good. I could try moving
> the profile (passwords and cookies and such), but I seem to remember
> hearing that Moz was a little cranky with moved/copied profiles. Anyone
> have any stories to tell?
>
> Honestly, my real concern (and it may be moot) is upgrading Ximian
> Evolution 1.0.8 to 1.4.x. I can't imagine that there would be any
> incompatibilities or risk of lost data for this, but I don't know for
> sure. Anyone using Evolution out there? Can you clue me in on any
> gotchas to watch out for?

I've done in-place upgrades of Evo from v1.0.2 to v1.4.5, and Gnome
from 1.4.x to 2.4.1 with no problems. Of course, that's with Debian;
YMMV.

> As for the other apps she uses, I think I have a handle on them. Gaim,
> some Linux games (Bubble Shooter is addictive), some DOS-emulated games,
> and the Gimp. Of course, the new machine comes with a CD burner. Can
> anyone suggest a good GUI burner?

xcdroast, as James says.

> [As an aside: The NetGear MA311 wireless card (802.11b) was a piece of
> cake to get working in Red Hat 8. I recommend using this Netgear product
> and staying the hell away from the unsupported SMC 2602W. I really need
> to post my notes from that nightmare.]

Wire rules! (Less chance that my neighbors will sniff my pr0n
collection....)

> If anyone wants to chime in with any ideas, stories, warnings, thoughts,
> opinions, questions, or any helpful information- please feel free.

Convert to a smoothly- or incrementally-upgradable distro.

> Thanks for keeping me from sleeping on the couch!

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