On Thursday 08 October 2009 05:01:23 pm kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
Up to and including 11.1-x86-64 I have always installed a new suse version in a clean partition, but I also used a fresh copy of my old /home dir. This appears to cause some sporadic problems to some, i never experienced any myself, but then again I have not used kde4, i am still with 3, my trusty old dinosaur. but that will change in the not too distant future, so i ask: what is the consensus these days on /home? if the recommendation is to start with a fresh /home, how does one transfer things like kmail, addressbook and organizer/contact content and a host of other shtuff accumulated over time? is there a recommended list of transferrables and/or transfer proceedures? how about a "must start from scratch" list? tia d.
No need to start from scratch. Just use your old home. What I would do is install 11.1 or 11.2 and SET IT TO BOOT TO RUNLEVEL 3. Let the install finish, and then roll in your old home directory. Then edit /etc/inittab or use yast runlevel editor to change the default to runlevel 5 and you should be done. The key is to roll the home directory in before you start kde4 because I know it will pull a lot of your kde3 settings in. What I don't know is whether these checks are one-time-only (on first start up) or if these checks are done each time. So if I wanted to make certain as much of the kde3 config as possible was picked up by kde4, that's the approach I would take. Others may have a different approach, but starting with the kde4.3-beta releases, this has worked well. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org