My first suggestion would be to not do a "clean fresh install" then. The whole point of doing a fresh install is not have (start with) any configuration or data, but it sounds like you want to retain at least some of your existing configuration / data. So it would be better (less work, less risk) to just update/upgrade your existing installation.
If you really must/want to do a clean install, then you'd want to copy over your old text/* files and some of your ctrl/*.cnf files (e.g. file.cnf, for the file area configuration, msgs.cnf for the message area configuration). But copying some .cnf files and not others may present problems. Try it and see. <shrug>
Re: SBBS 3.18B
By: Digital Man to Zazz on Mon Sep 28 2020 18:14:11
My first suggestion would be to not do a "clean fresh install" then. The whole point of doing a fresh install is not have (start with) any configuration or data, but it sounds like you want to retain at least some of your existing configuration / data. So it would be better (less work, less risk) to just update/upgrade your existing installation.
If you really must/want to do a clean install, then you'd want to copy over your old text/* files and some of your ctrl/*.cnf files (e.g. file.cnf, for the file area configuration, msgs.cnf for the message area configuration). But copying some .cnf files and not others may present problems. Try it and see. <shrug>
Thanks, I'll just do the upgrade.
Side note. I have one fidonet message area that (classic computer) that always starts me a message 1 even though I go through to end and it always sets me back to the first message. I think somehow it is corrupted, just guessing, is there a util to check message bases?
| Sysop: | Gate Keeper |
|---|---|
| Location: | Shelby, NC |
| Users: | 804 |
| Nodes: | 20 (0 / 20) |
| Uptime: | 177:55:56 |
| Calls: | 13,390 |
| Calls today: | 1 |
| Files: | 5,294 |
| D/L today: |
51 files (31,221K bytes) |
| Messages: | 606,237 |