jmszr
October 28th, 2010, 03:01 AM
Hello all,
I'm going to be adding a new hard drive, installing 10.04.1 onto it and then transferring /home from the 8.04.4 install on the original hard drive.
My first question is if the 10.04.1 install will recognize the existing hard drive and if I should reformat the 8.04 / partition first - leaving the old /home and swap temporarily? Will there be any conflicts with having 8.04 already installed? Another question I have is whether I need to do anything special with the /home during installation (I'm just concerned that I'll wind up with a /home within a /home)? Should I just disconnect the current hard drive temporarily? I am obviously ignorant about all this, so any direction would be welcome.
I have been reading a lot of documentation about transferring the old /home and have seen it being done with rsync, cp, and dd. I'm leaning towards rsync, but any recommendations?
I have already saved /opt, /var/cache/apt/archives, “save markings as” in synaptic, Firefox profile, and a sources.list.backup and, of course, I'll back up /home. I feel as if I'm still missing something(s) though – I just don't know what.
Thanks for any and all help.
I'm going to be adding a new hard drive, installing 10.04.1 onto it and then transferring /home from the 8.04.4 install on the original hard drive.
My first question is if the 10.04.1 install will recognize the existing hard drive and if I should reformat the 8.04 / partition first - leaving the old /home and swap temporarily? Will there be any conflicts with having 8.04 already installed? Another question I have is whether I need to do anything special with the /home during installation (I'm just concerned that I'll wind up with a /home within a /home)? Should I just disconnect the current hard drive temporarily? I am obviously ignorant about all this, so any direction would be welcome.
I have been reading a lot of documentation about transferring the old /home and have seen it being done with rsync, cp, and dd. I'm leaning towards rsync, but any recommendations?
I have already saved /opt, /var/cache/apt/archives, “save markings as” in synaptic, Firefox profile, and a sources.list.backup and, of course, I'll back up /home. I feel as if I'm still missing something(s) though – I just don't know what.
Thanks for any and all help.