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rhackenb

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Posted: Feb. 18 2004,21:12

What is the procedure upgrading to a new version of DSL without wiping out any previous custimizations and stored data? I assume that it might involve using a newer version of the the kernel but I'm not sure how that is done. Is this covered in a FAQ?

thanks,

bob

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Posted: Feb. 18 2004,21:18

DSL versions often have a lot of different updates in different areas, and so can't be simply updated. However, you could save all your data to a USB stick or a floppy or something, reinstall the latest version of DSL, and then restore your data.

rhackenb

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Posted: Feb. 19 2004,00:21

That's a real pain. I'm especially thinking about saving away email and bookmarks. It seems like maybe stuff like that could be mounted on a different partition.

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Posted: Feb. 26 2004,02:17

As a test, I booted DSL 6, and used a restore tarball on a usb stick from 0.5.3.1. Several things would not work:
l. custom menu
2. wallpaper
3. MozillaFirebird not in right place, but could find it, and it ran.
4. Opera would not run right.
5. several other directories for my "upload" html files that were in
/home/damnsmall wound up in "/".
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So, just restoring a tarball not created in DSL 6 has problems.
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roberts

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Posted: Feb. 26 2004,03:00

The files in the filetool.lst for backup/restore in 0.6 needs a full path. That is why some of your files from 0.5.+ did not restore properly. In 0.6 there is now a bootlocal in the opt directory. It is for misc systems commands that may need to be restored before there are any users. So the backup/restore is no longer only for a user, but for system. It is documented in the "Getting Started" section.

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