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