Am Montag, 13. Juni 2005 13:18 schrieb Klaus-F. Kaal:
As I am having problems, logging in at KDE as root. After having checked - together with helpful people in this mailing list - whatever could be the reason for that, I only see the way to re-install Suse. I have tried to repair the system, tried the update, but it does not change the points, I want to have changed.
You really don't want to login as root in any graphical environment. Advanced unix users never do that, and never need.. As long as - you can login as a user - you can remember the root password all is well. If you really need to run graphical appl., e.g. konqueror within you user KDE session, just Alt-F2 and type: kdesu konqueror A root terminal session is even easier to archive, start your favorite terminal appl. and type su<enter> Both ways leads to a password query for root, and upon successful authentication, you're in..
My question:
Is there a proper way of installing Suse on my computer without formating the harddisk? I have lots of data on it and it would be a huge work to save that all. The only way, Suse offers a new installtion is to re-format the harddisk. Can I avoid this?
I bet, that if you do so, the problem will persist, that's why SuSE formats the partitions in the first place. Pete