[olug] Fedora Core 2

Terry td3201 at yahoo.com
Thu May 20 14:27:40 UTC 2004


rpm -qaV is a nice tool to find out which files have
changed from their original state......caution, this
will take a while ...



--- Tim - DZ <iceburn at dangerzone.com> wrote:
> I didn't per-se 'upgrade' to FC2 but I'm just about
> done tar-scp-tar
> converting a redhat 8.0 to fedora 2.  About 90% done
> and so far no problems
> at all.
> 
> While we're talking about upgrading distros, does
> anyone have a particularly
> handy way to track all the customizations that
> happen to a default install?
> 
> It's pretty easy to pick what you need and don't
> need what you install a new
> distro, but what about making sure you've got all
> the edits to /etc files
> and such, most of the time copying from an older
> server won't work quite
> right because the new /etc files have been
> updated...so you have to find
> your changes in the old one, and edit the new
> one...similar for passwd
> shadow sudo etc...copy /home and places like
> /var/www/html and /var/log/
> 
> Of course there is the "copy everything you can
> remember and fix things when
> they" break method :-)
> 
> -t 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org
> [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
> Patrick Olsen
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:39 AM
> To: olug at olug.org
> Subject: [olug] Fedora Core 2
> 
> Well i have been out the last few days and my email
> deletes itself after a 
> couple days so if i missed this sorry for the
> repost. I was just wondering 
> if people upgraded to core 2 and if so how it went.
> I ran into some bumps on
> 
> one of my computers..I had some issues with my
> network card "that i never 
> got fixed just bought a new one and it worked but i
> know its a working card"
> 
> my sound didnt work but got that working i have
> sound blaster live game 5.1 
> or something...umm that basically about all the
> issues i had everything 
> appears to work fine now.
> 
> 
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Terry


	
		
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