From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

Thanks, Tony, I'll look that up.


Antti Kurenniemi

"Tony Williams"  wrote in message
news:3DE66618.7060307{at}blarg.net...
> Boot using Tom's Root-Boot disk ( http://www.toms.net/rb/ ) and nuke
> everything but your home directory. Then rename your home directory
> something like /home/antti.save . At this point you should have a disk
> with nothing on it but blank partitions except for the saved directory.
>
> Install RH but don't let it format any of your partitions.
>
> When the install has completed you can copy the saved files into your
> new home directory. You may want to be careful about copying any
> dot-files like .login because that'll mess with the user setup that RH
> gives you. You might also need to chown and chgrp the saved files to fix
> their ownership and permissions.
>
> I've used this method through many reinstalls and I've never lost
> anything. It's actually got to the stage where I have a customised
> desktop which I take from machine to machine with me so I get the same
> look and feel whatever machine/distro I'm using - it even moved fairly
> painlessly over to OS X running XDarwin.
>
> Making switches like this easy is one reason to install stuff in your
> home directory when given the option.
>
> Speaking of which, something to be careful of is to get a copy any
> shared data (usually somewhere under /opt or /share) in your home
directory.
>
> BTW, tomsrtbt is a must-have disk for system recovery and
> troubleshooting, for Windows systems as well as Linux.
>
> --
> Tony

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