Lastly, when you say "upgrade", are you seriously considering trying to install a relatively new Debian based distro on top of a very old rpm based distro?
If so, I predict nightmares, an unbootable system and data loss. If you just mean that you are going to replace the system and are planning routes for data migration, then I would not seriously expect a smooth path. If you can, upload important mail to an imap server and retrieve it from there on your installation. I'd go the csv route for contacts. -- Art Alexion MIS/Central Office Support Resources for Human Development ----- Original Message ----- From: evolution-list-boun...@gnome.org <evolution-list-boun...@gnome.org> To: evolution-list@gnome.org <evolution-list@gnome.org> Sent: Thu Apr 30 05:24:19 2009 Subject: Re: [Evolution] migration strategies - Help! > In playing with the trial installation > on another box, I've verified that Evo doesn't recognize > importing of those elements from previous Evo versions. Not exactly true. When upgrading, Evo will upgrade data from previous versions if necessary. However I fear that what you are trying to do (upgrade 1.x to 2.24) is just too disparate. There was a big change in the data structures from 1.x to 2.x and early versions of 2.x managed the upgrade without any problems - and subsequent upgrades of 2.x to 2.y also worked. They worked seamlessly, that's probably why you haven't found anything about it on the net. BTW, I know this to be true because I've been upgrading Evo since before 1.4 and am now on 2.26. I would have thought as well that you are going to have problems with other things trying to upgrade from FC2 to Ubuntu 8.10 - not only is it a big upgrade in terms of time difference, but it's also a difficult upgrade in going across distros. A few other comments - why are you going to Ubuntu 8.10, why not the most recent version? Also, and probably more importantly, if you are in the habit of keeping an installation for a long time, why use a distro that has a short lifetime (like Fedora or Ubuntu8.10), you would be better off using a long term distro like CentOS or which ever Ubuntu it was that had long support - at least then you will keep up to date with security updates and have a reasonable chance of having versions that aren't woefully out of date! P. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
