From: Jeff Shultz 

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 17:14:52 -0000, "Adam Flinton"
 wrote:

>
>Antti.....stick with Mandrake coz then I can help 
>
>Adam
>
Let's try this on.. I just freed up my last OS/2 box for whatever I want to
use it at. It was functioning as a router/firewall/nat box, but that
function just got taken over by an Actiontec 1520 DSL gateway. Including
port forwarding. Oh - and it was and is still running Seti.

So now I've got this AMD K6-2 400Mhz with about 256mb of RAM and RIVA-TNT2
Vanta in it. Fair sized hard drives... and no definable mission.

So, if I wanted to use it to replace my current Mandrake box... I figure
that I would do at a minimum the following:

Load Mandrake 9.0 on it.

Copy /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow from the original box to it. Copy /home
Copy large chunks of /etc (like /etc/postfix and /etc/named.conf) as needed.

Would this accomplish the task of transferring the users and their files
from one system to another? There would be a fair amount of other stuff to
move as well - Apache stuff to begin with.

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