Upgrading from FC4 to Kubuntu???

[Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO]

 This is exactly why I keep a separate /home directory.  You can always
slap it in another system and copy it over or wipe the other partitions
and reinstall and all your crap is still there.  Some of your dot files
may need to be deleted, but should still work with newer program
versions.  You shouldn't need /var unless you put stuff like your
website in there or files for FTP or mail files.  Since I use web mail
and have FTP directory on another drive that is not a problem.  I only
save /home before a new system load.  And I do back that up prior to
reload, usually.  I've only had to save it from the dead once by
breathing life back into the partition table, but then I like a good
resurrection every now and then.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: On Behalf Of Jon Moss

>
>Since Fedora Legacy Project has gone belly up, I've been 
>rethinking what to do with the workstation my daughter (a high 
>school senior soon to be college
>student) uses.  It currently has FC4 installed.  I'd like to 
>move her to Ubuntu (specifically kubuntu because she likes 
>KDE) but I'm not sure if I can "upgrade" to it from FC4.  I'm 
>going to backup all of her files and photos to a CD or DVD, 
>but I'm afraid I'm going to miss something (and I'd rather not 
>back up the entire hard drive if I don't have to since the OS 
>or distro won't matter any longer). 
>
>Has anyone ever done this?  Upgrade from one distro to another?  
>
>Or do I have to just wipe the hard drive and start from 
>scratch (like I would if it had Windows XP installed)?  
>
>Happy New Year!
>
>Jon Moss