On 2/25/2014 8:49 PM, Fabrizio Di Carlo wrote: > Well... I have 8GBs of RAM... But the point is: how is the best way to do > this migration? How backup data? > my favorite way to upgrade a system is to get a new disk drive. pull the old one out, install the new one, do a clean install of the new OS on the new disk, THEN reconnect the old one as a slave drive, and mount it under /mnt or whatever, and copy my data, settings, etc from the old system. once done, wipe the old drive and reuse for something else. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast