Ubuntu Migration Question
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 8:53 pm
I've just posted this on the Ubuntu forums but I thought perhaps I could ask it here too:
Basics:
1x 80GB HD with 40GB Gutsy Gibbon partition with two user accounts (my own and my wife's) + 40GB XP partition
1x 'spare' 80GB HD
2x 'spare' 40GB HDs
Plan:
To upgrade from Gutsy Gibbon to Karmic Koala and give it an 80GB HD of its own (and to give my XP partition an 80GB HD of its own)
To do this I plan on using a copy of Acronis True image to back-up two 40GB images on to 2 40GB HDs
Install Karmic on the 'spare' 80GB HD and then copy back what I want off the original 40GB Gutsy partition (now copied to a separate 40GB HD so I can expand my original XP into the full 80GB of original 80GB disk (the back up of XP on to other 40GB HD is just in case it all goes wrong!).
However, this is where I'm on dodgy ground and would like some help:
/home - if I simply copy the /home dir from the Gutsy disk to the new Karmic disk is that enough to restore all my local files and settings (it will be used in the same machine so settings should be OK (shouldn't they?!) i.e. all my docs, music, photos videos, emails (I use Evolution) and Firefox settings (and those of my wife). If this is a 'yes' then that's good and half the battle! If 'no' or 'sort of' what do I need to do? The second part of my query is that I've installed quite a few apps (as has my wife) - games, OpenOffice, VLC, GIMP and loads of stuff I can't even recall at the moment! So my secondary question is: Where do they live - and can they be easily moved without being reinstalled? (I don't mind upgrading once they've moved - some stuff (such as VLC) won't upgrade under Gutsy (but that's a different noob question for another day).
Any help very much appreciated - because if I break this - my better half with throttle me!
Basics:
1x 80GB HD with 40GB Gutsy Gibbon partition with two user accounts (my own and my wife's) + 40GB XP partition
1x 'spare' 80GB HD
2x 'spare' 40GB HDs
Plan:
To upgrade from Gutsy Gibbon to Karmic Koala and give it an 80GB HD of its own (and to give my XP partition an 80GB HD of its own)
To do this I plan on using a copy of Acronis True image to back-up two 40GB images on to 2 40GB HDs
Install Karmic on the 'spare' 80GB HD and then copy back what I want off the original 40GB Gutsy partition (now copied to a separate 40GB HD so I can expand my original XP into the full 80GB of original 80GB disk (the back up of XP on to other 40GB HD is just in case it all goes wrong!).
However, this is where I'm on dodgy ground and would like some help:
/home - if I simply copy the /home dir from the Gutsy disk to the new Karmic disk is that enough to restore all my local files and settings (it will be used in the same machine so settings should be OK (shouldn't they?!) i.e. all my docs, music, photos videos, emails (I use Evolution) and Firefox settings (and those of my wife). If this is a 'yes' then that's good and half the battle! If 'no' or 'sort of' what do I need to do? The second part of my query is that I've installed quite a few apps (as has my wife) - games, OpenOffice, VLC, GIMP and loads of stuff I can't even recall at the moment! So my secondary question is: Where do they live - and can they be easily moved without being reinstalled? (I don't mind upgrading once they've moved - some stuff (such as VLC) won't upgrade under Gutsy (but that's a different noob question for another day).
Any help very much appreciated - because if I break this - my better half with throttle me!