Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3863 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Sunday 2004-02-01 at 00:31 -0800, Tom Reagan wrote:

> I tried to use "yast2" at the command line to restore the system.  The

Version?

> In fighting this battle I described earlier (and copied to this thread
> just to have a point of reference), I just remembered I did a backup on
> Thursday night. I did a "multiple partition" backup (ie. I have a ton of
> files--probably around 700--in some subdirectory under /tmp that all are
> about the size of a diskette). I just had a thought that I would love
> (if it's possible and won't take like 10 hours).

What!!? :-O

Oh, my...

Why floppy size? That's done only if you intend to copy them to 700
floppies... ouch. You can specify of the destination drive, for example
700 Mb for CDRoms. Or a single file, whatever you prefer (at least using
8.2). How come you did it that way?

Oh, well...

> 1)Could I somehow restore the backup that I did through the Yast GUI
> without having windowed (KDE) environment?

Try mc (midnight commander). It is possible to open each tgz and copy the
contents elsewhere.

I don't know how Yast handles that.

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson