-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 01 May 2002 11:08, Nick Selby wrote:
I switched hard drives and did a clean install of 8. By the way it was way smopoth, and am I crazy or are K apps like Konqueror running and loading faster now over 7.2?
I think so. Smoother anyway.
Anyway, in order to restore things to a semblance of what they are, such as my network settings, I suppose I just need to make sure the new config files say essentially what the old ones did about hosts and what not.
If I just install my /home/userX/ directory, should that simply reinstall all programs I had installed as that user? Or is there ANOTHER directory (something about /share pops to mind) I need to mirror as well? And am I copying those directories wholesale or just specific files within them?
Linux used to be available simply as a kernel. If you needed an app you had to either write it, or compile it from another distro's source. Now, these packagers like Suse have made a whole infrastructure, with built-in apps, which is very nice. But there's a tremendous amount of complexity under the skirts. If you copy over your /home/user* dirs, it will break spectacularly. I always first do full configuration using Yast, KControl, etc, then hand-tweak config files like Susefirewall2, Squid &c. Gotta do it the LONG way, or die. This is my best answer. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE80BVnnQ18+PFcZJsRAmPiAJ0Q+GjlKxs/dJkQLLnG6TzTYGJE2wCeMEPw psXYF6rkbPJxhjiNJLT6Hlc= =F00C -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----