[wplug] Changing distros

[Shane Liesegang]

One of the servers I run is due for a hardware upgrade, and I'd like to 
take the opportunity at the same time to do a rebuild, since it was 
originally built when I knew less about Linux and is a bit... how do we 
say... hacked together and unstable.

I'd like to switch it from Fedora to Ubuntu. (Not starting a distro war, 
it's just the one I now prefer.) Because we're replacing the single hard 
drive with a pair of drives that will be setup as RAID 1, the original 
data will be untouched and available at all times. (And ready to be 
swapped back in in case of failure. :-))

Does anybody have experience with this sort of thing? Is there a 
known-good way to transfer user accounts, quotas, server configs, etc. 
with a minimal amount of fuss?

Any advice would be appreciated, as I've never done this kind of 
operation before.

	- SJML