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