[Linux4christians] Welcome

[Fred A. Miller]

On 11/09/2011 10:26 PM, Michael Hart wrote:
> One secret for this to be successful is to change your login ID
> everytime you upgrade/install another distro, so your new home folder
> isn't your old home.  This allows you to settle in and be able to
> revert nicely to the earlier version if something doesn't copy over
> properly. That is, if your primary user login is "ken" on the distro
> "magicbox 7", when you upgrade to magicbox 8, install to a different
> partition for /root, point your home to the same /home partition as
> magicbox 7, and make your user account "kenmb8".  That way you can
> rummage through the home folder for mb 7 and copy over anything
> relavent without breaking
> magicbox 7 if magicbox 8 crashes hopelessly the second time you boot it.
>
> chown and chmod are your friend for copying from one user folder to
> another. 

True, but I simply have 2 backups of /home and /local at all
times......one on a 2nd 1-T hard drive in the box and an external
ESATA/USB hard drive. That's one of the really great things about
Linux.....there's most often more than 1 way to skin the cat.  8-)

Fred

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"New"Democrats and old Communists so buy brass and lead 
instead of gold. - Bob Roller

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