Help needed with reinstall of Joomla 1.0 website

[e_g_r]

Can anyone help a non script person with this?

History

we had a Edugeek Joomla 1.0 website hosted on a cobolt rack server. This has been retired and we now have a cpanel web host package.

Problem

When i come to re install our website i get a Session save path unwritable, not set on the pre installation check screen.

If i go past this i get the following errors on step 2;

Warning: fopen(sql/sample_data.sql) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /data03/whsadmi3/public_html/installation/install2.php on line 135

Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for sql/sample_data.sql in /data03/whsadmi3/public_html/installation/install2.php on line 135

Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /data03/whsadmi3/public_html/installation/install2.php on line 135

And an error log, the top bit of which is below;

SQL=Table \'jos_banner\' already exists SQL=-- phpMyAdmin SQL Dump\n-- version 2.6.4-pl1\n-- http://www.phpmyadmin.net\n-- \n-- Host: localhost\n-- Generation Time: Jun 26, 2007 at 04:13 PM\n-- Server version: 4.0.20\n-- PHP Version: 4.3.11\n-- \n-- Database: `edugeek`\n-- \n\n-- --------------------------------------------------------\n\n-- \n-- Table structure for table `jos_banner`\n-- \n\nCREATE TABLE `jos_banner` (\n `bid` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,\n `cid` int(11) NOT NULL default \'0\',\n `type` varchar(10) NOT NULL default \'banner\',\n `name` varchar(50) NOT NULL default \'\',\n `imptotal` int(11) NOT NULL default \'0\',\n `impmade` int(11) NOT NULL default \'0\',\n `clicks` int(11) NOT NULL default \'0\',\n `imageurl` varchar(100) NOT NULL default \'\',\n `clickurl` varchar(200) NOT NULL default \'\',\n `date` datetime default NULL,\n `showBanner` tinyint(1) NOT NULL default \'0\',\n `checked_out` tinyint(1) NOT NULL default \'0\',\n `checked_out_time` datetime NOT NULL default \'0000-00-00 00:00:00\',\n `editor` varchar(50) default NULL,\n `custombannercode` text,\n PRIMARY KEY (`bid`),\n KEY `viewbanner` (`showBanner`)\n) TYPE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=1:

As i said i'm not into scripting at all so ANY pointers in plain speak would be much appreciated.

I have tried some of the solutions i found in google but they don't always make sense.

[peterict]

Hi.

I've never migrated from Joomla 1.0 before, but have you tried using mtwMigrator?

mtwMigrator - Joomla! Extensions Directory