Mint 10 [SOLVED]
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jesica
Mint 10 [SOLVED]
I am busy googling and searching the forum, is it posible if MInt 10 comes out in November to make an image of Mint 9 and use it for Mint 10 so that my system can be the same and that all my firefox bookmarks and all will be copied to it, I dont mind the data, all of that is on a ext hdd
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vincent
Re: Mint 10
If you want to save your Firefox bookmarks (well, your entire Firefox profile, actually), just backup your ~/.mozilla directory to a safe location, e.g. an external hard drive. You can find it by opening up your Home folder, pressing CTRL + H to reveal all hidden files (assuming you use Nautilus, that is), and copying the ".mozilla" folder you'll find there to the safe location you have in mind.
Keep in mind that Mint strongly recommends doing a fresh install with a new release, so the official instructions that Clem gives out for upgrading from release to release (http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2) involves installing a fresh copy of the newer release, and then re-installing all the applications you use that are not in the default install, as well as re-tweaking and re-theming your system to what it was like before. So strictly speaking, no, you can't make an image backup of Mint 9 and use that for Mint 10. What you can do is upgrade your system via APT instead of a fresh install (involves a few changes to /etc/apt/sources.list and the infamous "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade")...but Clem is strongly opposed to that due to the potential for severe borkage of your system. Still, this is the only way you can retain your current configuration with the least amount of work possible.
Keep in mind that Mint strongly recommends doing a fresh install with a new release, so the official instructions that Clem gives out for upgrading from release to release (http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2) involves installing a fresh copy of the newer release, and then re-installing all the applications you use that are not in the default install, as well as re-tweaking and re-theming your system to what it was like before. So strictly speaking, no, you can't make an image backup of Mint 9 and use that for Mint 10. What you can do is upgrade your system via APT instead of a fresh install (involves a few changes to /etc/apt/sources.list and the infamous "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade")...but Clem is strongly opposed to that due to the potential for severe borkage of your system. Still, this is the only way you can retain your current configuration with the least amount of work possible.
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samu
Re: Mint 10
If your "old mint" installd on partition of its own - you can simply install it on that partition while keep the the /home partition to be added to the new one with all its containts - it means that you should format only the system (/) partition and not!!!! the ( /home) partition, for the new istallation. 