HD Install :: backup



Hello everybody.
I want to install DSL 1.5 but I don't want lose DSL 1.4 settings (themes, icons, lilo-backgrounds etc).
Any idea?? I think to copy on-by-one each configuration file...
Other ways??

Bye & thanks
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Petit982
[DSL - Italian user]
What i always do is:

backup: backup.tar.gz (and unpack it later in a directory->OLDCONFIG)
a clean install
add all the dsl-extensions
copy all the .rc-files to the HOME-directory (from OLDCONFIG)
make sure that the new directory structure is the same as the old one (so all the scripts/applications all still point to the right directory

(not all neccesary in this order)

I which that there was a faster way but just copying the backup.tar.gz to the new DSL could give a lot of trouble at X-time (after the preliminary boot-fase)
petit982, have you considered a frugal install? A compressed image is held on one partition while all of your extensions, /home, /opt and backup/restore are on a seperate partition. Because of this updating to the newest version is usually a snap because you can use the new compressed image by copying it onto that partition.
Quote (adssse @ Sep. 16 2005,00:20)
petit982, have you considered a frugal install? A compressed image is held on one partition while all of your extensions, /home, /opt and backup/restore are on a seperate partition. Because of this updating to the newest version is usually a snap because you can use the new compressed image by copying it onto that partition.

that's a very good idea!! Thank's.

But I'm not an expert on Linux...and also I've never done a frugal installation. (consider also that I've not properly understand what's really a frugal installation and how to do that... But I will read some documents to do that)

A question: a frugal installation is "like" in win when you make 2 partitions (one for the s.o. and custom programs and one for the personal datas)??

Thank's
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Petit982
Clivesay has put up a great step by step tutorial.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....wto.pdf

and here is a thread with answers to many of the questions I had.
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....anation

its took me a little bit to understand everything going on with it, but once you do it is great.
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