stakanov, et al -- ...and then stakanov said... % % Hi David. Hiya! % 42 is the number that solves all problems of the universe, so it was a nerdy % and (for me) nice way of doing reference / homage to the "hitchhikers guide to % the galaxy". *grin* ... % I did not find reference about which version you did run before. Depending on Sorry. I *thought* that I had said that I'm running 42.3 now, and I know that I did in another thread, but I could have missed it. That probably would have been helpful :-) % this it will be possible to have substantial similarity or dissimilarity to % your former situation. Especially KDE but also Gnome changed a lot over the % time. What stays the same (and will give you a good home feeling) is yast. FF % is still the default browser. % Hope that helps you in some way. It does; thanks. I'm actually a KDE/Plazma kind of guy, but perhaps Gnome is better after my having been away for ... "a long time". Wouldn't hurt to give it a try. % % P.s. if your PC has a separate /home for your former install, it is possible % to read in the former system without having to play back any backup. Even some % settings (depending on your previous version) could be restored. Interesting... It does, thanks to a symlink: davidtg@wench:~> dfx Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 32G 30G 442M 99% / /dev/sda3 819G 729G 90G 90% /mnt/data /dev/sda4 64G 60G 4.5G 94% /mnt/windows davidtg@wench:~> ls -goh /home lrwxrwxrwx 1 13 Dec 15 2017 /home -> mnt/data/home I actually have /usr/local separate, too, and use rsync to keep a copy of the /etc tree against any changes: davidtg@wench:~> ls -goh /mnt/data/OS/ total 49K drwxr-xr-x 2 33K Feb 18 06:06 00-rsync-logs -rwxr-xr-x 1 171 May 3 2018 00-rsync.sh drwxrwxr-x 3 256 Feb 9 07:07 00-src -rw-r--r-- 1 1.5K Feb 9 21:14 OS-notes.txt drwxr-xr-x 134 8.3K Feb 13 20:31 etc drwxrwxr-x 12 296 Jan 22 2018 local davidtg@wench:~> ls -goh /usr/local lrwxrwxrwx 1 18 Jan 8 2018 /usr/local -> /mnt/data/OS/local I'm certainly interested in the easy way to reinstall and get back to full functionality! % You may encounter difficulties when it comes to kmail (if your version is ... % a try or you wish to look at other MUA (e.g. Thunderbird. Thanks, but I currently do no email here anyway. One of these days I might bother to fire up a lightweight MTA to hand off to justpickone and then run mutt (*the* MUA of choice :-) here, but I don't ever have much need to do offline email and so I just ssh to my server. % Hope that helps. Yes, as always! Thanks again to all & HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org