On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Michael Town wrote:

> My question is: which files will I need to back up to make the switch as
> seamless as possible?  My /Home directory is a separate partition, so I'm
> safe there (I think).  What I know for sure is my /root user directory,
> along with my apache and samba config files.  Also my passwd, shadow and
> groups files.  I'm also guessing the /etc/sysconfig directory (at least
> the network files)

You'll want to back up the entire /etc tree.  Unless you made some wacky
custom changes that change the behavior of Mandrake, but then you
documented those, right? :-)

If you just let Madrake do all the work and left everything at default,
everything you need should be in /etc/

-Brian