On Sunday 04 November 2007 05:29, Basil Chupin wrote:
The OP has bought himself an external HD (to be able to do a backup of his 10.0 system before upgrading to 10.3) and is wondering how to go about formatting the HD. James suggested using Yast Partitioner but when OP does this the USB drive doesn't appear in the Partitioner.
Exactly! :-)
(I suspect that someone like Carlos E will be able to dredge up from his extensive archives the appropriate messages which provided the "fix" which the OP could apply to overcome his problem.)
I'll keep my fingers crossed. As an alternative I will have to fire up my old Celeron 400 Mhz with 128 MB ram (which I guess will not run recent versions of SuSE), and use it as a backup media (scp over ethernet). Speaking of which: Is the a size limit for a tar-file? (can I make one big tar of my entire /home ~ around 15 - 30 GB depending of how much I clean up). Loking very much forward to the 10.3 upgrade - and to a better backup routine :-) Best, Janus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org