You say 'certain'. How do you expect the installer to guess about what parts of / and /var you want to preserve according to whatever you might have on them?
Well, to take the example of /home, The installer YaST2 normally sets up a user account in addition to root. I would think if no change in filesystem type were requested, it ought only mount /home and not touch the directories there. Same kind of thing with /etc/fstab /etc/passwd, etc... But, I suppose maybe that is asking too much.
Our installer only touches partition(s) the user asked it to touch.
partitions. Obviously, the installer will know to mount the home partition under /home and so on from /etc/fstab. What about network configurations, printer setups, etc... I hope these are preserved.
It is under our installer possible to decide upon what partitions one want to keep and which one not. We even offer to the installing person if one wants to format these or not. But if we were to parse the contents of such partitions with regards to whatever files the partitionholder would like to keep... I'm afraid that is not possible.
Is that correct, or do I need to back some of this stuff up first?
Real men don't backup, they cry. I tried crying for real once. Now I backup my important stuff. I can only encourage you to do the same, SuSE Linux upgrade or not.
All in all; our installer never does anything it was not told to do.
I agree, in any case, there is no substitute for back ups. Babu __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com