<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Upgrading Your linux Distribution mini-HOWTO</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="IMPORTANT!!! Disclaimer and Copyright" HREF="x17.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="ARTICLE" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="ARTICLE" ><DIV CLASS="TITLEPAGE" ><H1 CLASS="TITLE" ><A NAME="AEN2">Upgrading Your linux Distribution mini-HOWTO</H1 ><DIV CLASS="AUTHORGROUP" ><A NAME="AEN4"><H3 CLASS="AUTHOR" ><A NAME="AEN5" >Greg Louis</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="AFFILIATION" ><DIV CLASS="ADDRESS" ><P CLASS="ADDRESS" > glouis@dynamicro.on.ca<br> </P ></DIV ></DIV ></DIV ><P CLASS="COPYRIGHT" >Copyright © 1996, 2002 by Dynamicro Consulting Limited</P ><DIV ><DIV CLASS="ABSTRACT" ><A NAME="AEN15"><P ></P ><P > Hints and tips on upgrading from one linux distribution to another. This is version 1.2, 2002-03-09. </P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><HR></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="x17.html" >IMPORTANT!!! Disclaimer and Copyright</A ></DT ><DT >2. <A HREF="x22.html" >Changes since version 1.1</A ></DT ><DT >3. <A HREF="x36.html" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >3.1. <A HREF="x36.html#AEN38" >How to slay and reincarnate your linux box!</A ></DT ><DT >3.2. <A HREF="x36.html#AEN43" >Why would anyone want to do that?</A ></DT ><DT >3.3. <A HREF="x36.html#AEN49" >Do you have to ``destroy and reinstall?''</A ></DT ><DT >3.4. <A HREF="x36.html#AEN53" >How long will it take?</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >4. <A HREF="x58.html" >Write down everything you do.</A ></DT ><DT >5. <A HREF="x61.html" >Make a full backup of the existing system.</A ></DT ><DT >6. <A HREF="x66.html" >Back up /etc and its subdirectories on one or more floppies.</A ></DT ><DT >7. <A HREF="x69.html" >Make separate backups of each group of files you want to preserve.</A ></DT ><DT >8. <A HREF="x120.html" >Prepare root and boot floppies for the new installation.</A ></DT ><DT >9. <A HREF="x123.html" >Format floppies for the temporary kernel and the final build.</A ></DT ><DT >10. <A HREF="x127.html" >Inhibit logins and back up the /root and /home trees.</A ></DT ><DT >11. <A HREF="x130.html" >Boot from the new installation's boot and root floppies.</A ></DT ><DT >12. <A HREF="x133.html" >Delete the linux partitions with fdisk and recreate them.</A ></DT ><DT >13. <A HREF="x136.html" >Run the new linux installation.</A ></DT ><DT >14. <A HREF="x140.html" >Restore configuration data to the /etc directory and subdirectories.</A ></DT ><DT >15. <A HREF="x143.html" >Configure and rebuild the linux kernel.</A ></DT ><DT >16. <A HREF="x147.html" >Restore the stuff from the backups you made earlier.</A ></DT ><DT >17. <A HREF="x150.html" >Review security.</A ></DT ><DT >18. <A HREF="x155.html" >Enable logins.</A ></DT ><DT >19. <A HREF="x158.html" >Sorry, but once again: <EM >USE THIS INFORMATION AT YOUR OWN RISK!</EM ></A ></DT ><DT >20. <A HREF="x162.html" >Acknowledgements</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x17.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >IMPORTANT!!! Disclaimer and Copyright</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >