Good afternoon! ...and then cagsm said... % % Hi fellow lists participants, I have a hardware breakdown of an old % HDD, and I need to revive a system/functionality really quick. I am a Ouch! Bummer :-( % noob unfortunately when it comes to backuping/restore suse in simple % ways especially with keeping config, users etc. I bet you'll do a better job after this ;-) % % I can still read kind of okay the old /etc/ and basically the root % partition. I have already a new SSD at hand so I could quickly setup a % clean leap 15.1 but how to make use of old config files instead of % configuring all over again. [snip] You're best off just doing a fresh install; you very definitely don't want to try blending the two. BUT what I would do (and have for other upgrades or migrations) is copy the old /etc tree off to a working temp tree to have it handy and then diff files such as group, passwd, shadow plus sshd keys (yes, I'm that lazy!) and smb config and such. Sometimes you can drop the old file into place (but back up the new one first, like by copying the new /etc tree also out to another safe place), and sometimes you can apply some diffs. Good luck :-) :-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