On Thursday 08 October 2009 04:30:17 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
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.
by this you mean manual editing of /etc/fstab to change where /home is? I usually do that just as a precaution when i ahave no room for a backup of /home!
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
THAT'S THE TIP, thanks:))))
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.
my experience with 4 has not been good ; whenever i tried it i gave up after 1/2 hour, did that 3-4x. lately it seems that there has been some effort to work with the user, so there is at least an appearance of progress and i am wondering if i could gain anything by moving up (down?) to it once more... thanks again for the tip:)
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