At present I have a 500g drive with win2000 on sda1 and Feisty on sda3 in a dual boot managed by grub along with sda2, a 150g ntfs data partition which I intend to drastically shrink, sda4, an extended partition, and sda5, the swap partition. I also have a second unformatted 500g HD.
I would like feedback on the feasibility of the following upgrade strategy. I would like to do a fresh install of Gutsy on a partition on the second (now empty) drive, and then copy over to this installation all files I will need from the Feisty install including programs I installed, config info, especially Thunderbird and Firefox config, Thunderbird mailboxes, and anything else you might mention that I have forgotten.
If this is all feasible then the next upgrade would involve formatting sda3, the Feisty partition, and installing the version after Gutsy in it. Assuming this will somehow work, I would welcome feedback on following points:
1. How best to achieve copying over the files outlined in second paragraph, ie which files do I need and where are they, etc.
2. Will grub automatically transparently cope with all this, updating the boot info on the MBR on sda1.
I would like feedback on the feasibility of the following upgrade strategy. I would like to do a fresh install of Gutsy on a partition on the second (now empty) drive, and then copy over to this installation all files I will need from the Feisty install including programs I installed, config info, especially Thunderbird and Firefox config, Thunderbird mailboxes, and anything else you might mention that I have forgotten.
If this is all feasible then the next upgrade would involve formatting sda3, the Feisty partition, and installing the version after Gutsy in it. Assuming this will somehow work, I would welcome feedback on following points:
1. How best to achieve copying over the files outlined in second paragraph, ie which files do I need and where are they, etc.
2. Will grub automatically transparently cope with all this, updating the boot info on the MBR on sda1.