[ydl-gen] Upgrade rant, was: Re: over-the-wire upgrading of 4.01 to 4.1

[Kai Staats]

On Friday 17 March 2006 15:31, Norberto Quintanar wrote:
> You don't think the CEO of terrasoft knows how, or chooses to waste
> his time other ways?  Just a thought.

It's ok :) Lists are for sharing knowledge. And we all have knowledge. And we 
are passionate about what we do, else we would not proactively share the 
knowledge we have. Therefore, these are passionate exchanges and well 
received. We remain virtual friends in the end (I hope).

I am switching laptops today and will in fact use this info to see if I can 
get the OSX side (embarrassed to even admit I still have one, but I do have 
to test MOL :) to backup easier.

Thanks!
kai

> > Dump it to a disk image/CD, then copy it back, overwrite
> > everything.
> >
> > The biggest problems happen if your new UID is different from your
> > old UID. But chown -R fixes that.
> >
> > For /Library, the best way is a clean install that preserves user
> > and network settings. There's *maybe* a handful of things that won't
> > get put correctly for you, and they'll be sitting in the same relative
> > place in the /Previous Systems/ directory.
> >
> > For /System, leave it the heck alone. If you had kext's in there,
> > just reinstall from source media.
>
> --Norberto Quintanar