Transfugdrake allows you to import
settings and documents from your
Microsoft®
Windows® partition into your
Mandriva Linux partition, in order to ease
migration from
Windows® to
Mandriva Linux. The wizard consists of a few
simple steps, detailed below.
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At the time of writing, Transfugdrake only supports migration from Windows® XP operating system. |
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Please bear in mind that each wizard operation takes effect immediately after clicking . |
Procedure 5.1. Migrating User Settings and Documents
Specify Source and Destination Users
If you have more than one user on your operating systems, you are asked to select the source (Windows®) and target (Mandriva Linux) users: use the corresponding pull-down lists to select users.
Migrate Documents
You are then asked whether you want to migrate documents. Select the Skip step option if you don't want to migrate documents right now, but are interested in migrating settings.
Select the Import documents option to copy
documents from the
Windows® partition
to your Mandriva Linux system. Use this if
you don't plan to use
Windows® anymore
and want to be able to delete its partition without too much risk of
data loss. Files and folders from “My Documents”, “My
Pictures” and “My Music” are copied over to the
user's Documents
, Pictures
and
Music
folders, respectively.
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Please be patient, depending on the ammount of information to transfer, the copying operation may take a long time to complete. |
Selecting the Share documents option makes symbolic links (think of shortcuts in Windows®) to the documents instead of copying them over. Use this option to keep data on the Windows® partition.
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Please have in mind that if you later decide to delete or reinstall Windows®, or there's a virus that corrupts files, you may not be able to access your documents from Mandriva Linux anymore. Therefore, it is highly recommended that you select the “Import” option instead. |
Migrate Bookmarks
Select the Import bookmarks option to import the web browser bookmarks. Both Microsoft® Internet Explorer® and Mozilla Firefox bookmarks are merged with the user's Mozilla Firefox bookmarks on Mandriva Linux.
Select the Skip Step option if you don't want to import web browser bookmarks now, but want to continue importing other settings. You will have to rebuild, one by one, your Windows® bookmarks collection.
Migrate Desktop Background Image
Simply select the Use Mandriva background to keep your current Mandriva Linux desktop's background image, or select Import background to use the desktop background image of Windows® instead.