[Fwd: SuSE 7.3]

Richard Johnston

3 Dec 2001 3 Dec '01

12:12

Richard Johnston wrote: I have just bought SuSE 7.3 from The Linux Emporium and would appreciate an answer to the following:

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Just one question - Is there much danger of me loosing any files in a) my home directory? b) my Netscape email - letters - bookmarks - addresses? c) StarOffice? when I upgrade from 7.1 to 7.3? Thanks & regards Richard

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Quinton Delpeche

3 Dec 3 Dec

12:15

New subject: [SLE] [Fwd: SuSE 7.3]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Well officialy SuSE say that there shouldn't be a problem. Many people I know perform upgrades and have no issues, I however (due to personal preference) never perform an upgrade and rather do a fresh install everytime. Just recently one of my colleagues upgraded from SuSE 7.0 to 7.2 without any issues. To be on the safe side I would reccomend doing a backup just in case, you never know when Murphy may be lurking around. Regards Q On Mon 03 Dec 01 14:12, Richard Johnston wrote:

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Richard Johnston wrote: I have just bought SuSE 7.3 from The Linux Emporium and would appreciate

an answer to the following:

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Just one question - Is there much danger of me loosing any files in a) my home directory? b) my Netscape email - letters - bookmarks - addresses? c) StarOffice? when I upgrade from 7.1 to 7.3? Thanks & regards Richard

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Thank you John for your exceedingly swift delivery even faster than I expected!

Just one question - Is there much danger of me loosing any files in a) my home directory? b) my Netscape email - letters - bookmarks - addresses? c) StarOffice? when I upgrade from 7.1 to 7.3? Thanks & regards Richard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

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Marianne Taylor

4 Dec 4 Dec

05:21

New subject: [SLE] [Fwd: SuSE 7.3]

I have my /home directory on a seperate partition, so that all my data stays safe as I "play" with my system. I have reinstalled many times and never lost any important data. -- Marianne Taylor On Monday 03 December 2001 04:15, Quinton Delpeche wrote:

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Hi,

Well officialy SuSE say that there shouldn't be a problem.

Many people I know perform upgrades and have no issues, I however (due to personal preference) never perform an upgrade and rather do a fresh install everytime.

Just recently one of my colleagues upgraded from SuSE 7.0 to 7.2 without any issues.

To be on the safe side I would reccomend doing a backup just in case, you never know when Murphy may be lurking around.

Regards Q

On Mon 03 Dec 01 14:12, Richard Johnston wrote:

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Richard Johnston wrote: I have just bought SuSE 7.3 from The Linux Emporium and would appreciate

an answer to the following:

...
Just one question - Is there much danger of me loosing any files in a) my home directory? b) my Netscape email - letters - bookmarks - addresses? c) StarOffice? when I upgrade from 7.1 to 7.3? Thanks & regards Richard

X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Message-ID: <3C08A6F2.FA27A4B2@ntlworld.com> Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 09:46:26 +0000 From: Richard Johnston X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: john@linuxemporium.co.uk Subject: SuSE 7.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

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Thank you John for your exceedingly swift delivery even faster than I

expected!

Just one question - Is there much danger of me loosing any files in a) my home directory? b) my Netscape email - letters - bookmarks - addresses? c) StarOffice? when I upgrade from 7.1 to 7.3? Thanks & regards Richard

Richard Johnston

17:24

New subject: [SLE] [Fwd: SuSE 7.3]

Thank you Quinton and Zermayr, I did as you suggested and backed it up on hda but as it turned out the update worked without problems (Almost). Anybody know if whilst in the home directory in KDE it is possible to "su", if so how? Thanks Richard Johnston Quinton Delpeche wrote:

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Hi,

Well officialy SuSE say that there shouldn't be a problem.

Many people I know perform upgrades and have no issues, I however (due to personal preference) never perform an upgrade and rather do a fresh install everytime.

Just recently one of my colleagues upgraded from SuSE 7.0 to 7.2 without any issues.

To be on the safe side I would reccomend doing a backup just in case, you never know when Murphy may be lurking around.

Regards Q

On Mon 03 Dec 01 14:12, Richard Johnston wrote:

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Richard Johnston wrote: I have just bought SuSE 7.3 from The Linux Emporium and would appreciate

an answer to the following:

...
Just one question - Is there much danger of me loosing any files in a) my home directory? b) my Netscape email - letters - bookmarks - addresses? c) StarOffice? when I upgrade from 7.1 to 7.3? Thanks & regards Richard

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Thank you John for your exceedingly swift delivery even faster than I expected!

Just one question - Is there much danger of me loosing any files in a) my home directory? b) my Netscape email - letters - bookmarks - addresses? c) StarOffice? when I upgrade from 7.1 to 7.3? Thanks & regards Richard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

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