Mandrake reinstall

[phredd]

I'm currently running Mandrake 9.0, but it's behaving a bit strangely at the moment, so I am planning to wipe it and do a fresh install of Mandrake 9.1.

Will I be able to simply backup my 'Home' directory, then copy it into my new 9.1 home dir and have all my settings restored?

I'm mainly concerned about my Mozilla mail settings/ inboxes.

Any suggestions/advice much appreciated.

Cheers ;)

[deathadder]

if you've created your home directory on a seperate partion, when your installin mdk9.1 you can simply mount that partion as your new home partion i believe, only ever used mdk9.0 so im not entirely sure how it would be done, but probably with diskdrake

HTH

[o0zi]

I think MDK 9.0 and 9.1 have almost identical /home directories, so you should be ok.
You can either make a partition for your /home directory, and just mount it at /home when you've reinstalled, or you could .tar.gz /home, like this:

tar -c home > /home.tar
gzip -9 /home.tar

Then just copy home.tar.gz somewhere.

[gosam]

i've already done this , my cuurent home partition went from mdk 8.2 to 9 to 9.1 and now slackware ,so no problem.

[phredd]

Thanks for the feedback fellas, confirmed my suspicion. Sweet :cool:

Can anyone tell me whether my partial downloads (in MLDonkey) will be resumable when I copy my home directory into a fresh installation?

[deathadder]

if you set it up the same as before i dont see why it wont, but im not sure :)

[gosam]

just one thing make sure your users get the same uid after and before the install.