[nzlug] Migrating details

[Simon]

I am getting the impression that nobody here has been doing this on a
routine basis.

I have run across people who feel unable to move away from windows
because of the (perceived) risk of losing their settings. So I figured
it would be a good idea to work out how to do this.

It looks like the easy plan is to install firefox and thunderbird to
windows and use their export tools to save the information. Though I
like the live disto idea.


On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 10:17 +1200, Robert Coup wrote:
> Andrew Bruce wrote:
> > This just worked for me, but no guarantees.  It might pay in your 
> > case, once you've done the export from the Windows Mozilla tools, to 
> > load them into blank profiles on a Linux machine somewhere just to 
> > ensure that it is doable before going through and wiping the HDD.
> You may be able to try it by running a live cd and doing the import 
> (/home is usually mapped to a ramdisk) rather than installing right away.
> 
> Rob :)
> 
> 
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