I am going to be moving a 9.1 Personal (Intalled on hdb) installation
To a different hard drive with 9.1 Pro (hda).

How do I export EVERYTHING?
Mail at least?

-Riddick

Riddick,

I'm not sure that you'll be able to take eveything with you in the switch to an upgrade, afterall an up-grade is an up-grade.

Best bet would be to back up your important data to disk and then re-install after you go to the new OS version.

It's probably too late, but you could have copied your whole 9.1 Personal installation to hda and update this to a Pro version.
A SuSE 9.1 Professional is nothing but a 9.1 Personal with more software. Just add the Pro-CD as new installation source.

But to your question: I would copy the content of /home into the new /home on hda. You may need to adjust permissions, if the user ID has changed on your new system. Maybe you also want to copy the content of /root, if you have some data there.

abisko00/Adler,
I want to back up my settings as well because I want to do a new install of 9.2 but it seems that simply copying the home folder isn't enough. How would you preserve your font, KDE/GNOME display settings, bookmarks, passwords etc?

Cheers,

ceg4048,

I've got a bunch of friends that will never up-date because of the complexities of saving their passwords (which they have forgotten) , cookies (for on-line banking), a file structure that makes no sense (they can't find a file / document), etc.

Basically, with an up-grade you've got to accept system changes and you may loose things that you would like saved. How to save eveything? Back up what you want that is critical to disk or park it in Cyberspace.

There's really no "magic bullet" to any up-grade with any OS.

KDE and Gnome settings are usually stored in your homedirectory, as well as bookmarks etc. But with passwords it's getting more complicated.

As I wrote previously, the easiest thing to do is to upgrade the existing system. If you make a 1:1 copy of your second HDD on hda, you could use Yast to update/upgrade the system without losing the settings.

think I shall make a new install and keep the ther disk unformatted untill everything is across