In data venerdì 23 aprile 2021 08:25:46 CEST, Doug McGarrett ha scritto:
Recently have had increasing problems with system crashing. Hoping that When did you system crash? On startup, on restart, on hibernation, while running, which desktop?
updating would correct this, I ran zypper dup. and it crashed while installing This is always a bad idea when you have a problem like that. What file system you use. If you use BTRFS the only advantage of it is, that you can rollback. Do you use BTRFS? Do you know how to rollback?
everything. It is now not possible to boot the system, either on the recovery option Chances are good you did interrupt the install before all files were correctly downloaded. Do I understand well that you reach recovery console? From there as root
zypper lr to see if you have mixed inadvertedly some repo that shout not be there.
or the earlier system shown in the boot selection. I expect I will have to reinstall,
however, I would like to try and copy off some files to a second (presently empty)
hard drive I installed a couple of months ago. If this is not feasible, I have a blank
hard drive that can be hooked up to a usb port if necessary. Am writing this from the
Windows os that came with the machine. I don't suppose there is anything in Windows
You can start the system on a life CD, branch the USB and if the HDD is sufficiently large do simply (on the empty and formatted usb disk naturally) cp -ax /home /pathtotheusb/ this will copy completely the /home so you can do a fresh install being sure you do not loose anything. Normally you should have /home on a separate partition (that you are asked at install. To see how your system is partitioned do in the recover root terminal: lsblk This shows you if the /home is separate. If it is, you may choose expert mode in installing TW and tell to read in the previous mount points and the to format ONLY the root and evtl the swap. You will install and then restart.
that will do what I need--correct me if I'm wrong--so I can download a present version
of OpenSuse TW or use a DVD that I downloaded last summer. Whichever is suggested,
Maybe thus a reinstall is not necessary all together. What graphic card did you use? If Nvidia, installed from their site or installed from rpm?
I need instructions on how to recover important files and pictures and save them to
the second hard drive. (I have or will format that to ext4 from gparted.) Then I will
download a present iteration of the system and install it on the original drive.
Sorry about the double spacing--Windows T/B style!
Thank you for any assistance--doug