Kai Schaetzl wrote:
If you don't use SELinux just copying over should be fine, mostly. However, I wouldn't recommend it, apps sometimes spread their files a bit so you may miss one or two ... Also, your rpm/yum database is not in sync then. What I usually do (on server machines) is reinstall all software that is really needed (which usually results in less software getting installed than on the old machine ;-) and then replace their configuration files with the old ones. Home directories, MySQL databases etc. can just be "carried over". And you can carry over users by just adding them with cat or a text editor to the passwd/shadow/group/gshadow files.
Hi All,
yes, what you say makes sense. I just re-installed and copied over home dir. Cheers.
Mark Sargent