From: "Geo." 

Can't you just clone the drive then do an upgrade install?

Geo.

"Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
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> At this point I'm looking to get out of the Army (active at least) before
> the end of the month. I'll be building a frankenclone soon after. Just for
> information's sake I'm looking at an AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (nice price
> point) on a Gigabyte GA-7NNXP motherboard with 512mb of DDR PC2700 memory.
> ATI Radeon 9600 Pro video or equivalent (ATI 9600 Pro chip at least).
> Should be a nice SETI box as well.
>
> So... this thing is going to be replacing my primary server, which is
> running Mandrake 8.1. The new box will be running Mandrake 9.1, unless 9.2
> is out before I get it built and looks stable enough.
> Currently the server is running Postfix, Apache 1.3.x, BIND 9 and is
> hosting several users and domains.
> I'm going to have to transfer all the user files and configuration info
> from one box to the other... including users and groups... transparently.
> I know that this can be done... is it as simple as simply copying over
> /etc/passwd, /etc/groups and /etc/shadow and then starting to copy over
> /home? Followed by various config files? Right now moving Apache worries
> me the most, since it's going to be an upgrade from 1.3.x to 2.x. Postfix
> is my second worry, simply because I don't feel comfortable with my
> knowledge levels there.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> --
> Jeff Shultz
>

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