Question migrate from old FB1.05 in J1.0 to the now Kunena 1.08 in J1.5?

The existing FB one might already work, anyone tried it yet?

I thought you were volunteering. I wouldn't volunteer "anyone" to do anything I wasn't capable of doing myself.

i just did my part, voting for this in uservoice.

hope others would do the same.

I have reciently done this with my site.

Steps I took were thus:
Convert to J1.5 first .. I used this Migrator - extensions.joomla.org/extensions/hosting...version/3895/details - to move everything except the forum. (Articles, menu's etc). I see it now supports Fireboard moving also, but I did ot test this.

Please note I used a new DB for the new J1.5 site and essentially used the migrator to move from one DB to another.

I then installed FB 1.05 on this fresh new shiny J1.5 install (ater I had tested everything was good.)

I then manually imported the relevent FB data (jos_fb_xxxxx) into this new DB using phpMyAdmin from my hosts backend. Next was to simply upgrade to Kunena and redo all of the menu links to the forum. Final step was syncing the users from the Kunena backend. Don't forget to manually copy Avatars and images also.

You can see the result at my site - www.talksport.co.nz

It wasn't perfect or easy, but it worked.

Please note you need to ensure you BACKUP !! as I wont take responsability for anyone following this crude guide.

Thanks nzjacob for confirming the steps that you did.

In a next while i'll be referring into this steps when i migrate my forum.

ok, well it seems to work great for me so far. I migrated from fb1.05 to kunena 1.08 on joomla 1.0.15. Then I built a new joomla 1.5 installation, instlaled a fresh copy of kunena on that, then in phpmyadmin copied the _fb_ tables from the old joomla over onto the new joomla.

During installation of kunena on 1.5, I was warned to enable legacy mode, and I had to increase php timeout, as mentioned in the release notes.

I'm particularly happy because 1.08 greatly improves the reverse time layout, which was was my first request to Kunena in January. Also I am glad to see a mention of the broken gifs in the release notes. I tried to tell the fireboard folks about it back in October, and after trying to correct what was intended as a helpful observation, they told me off for being stupid. All one has to do is copy over the corrupted gifs from somehwere else. They tried insisting there were no corrupted gifs in the package, but now I feel greatly validated that kunena has found the same problem