James Knott schreef:
Basil Chupin wrote:
My personal opinion is that you should always do a clean install - ie, start from zero. Especially now that you are about to install a new 64-bit system.
He was referring to /home, which contains user data. That should always be protected during install, but otherwise left alone. In my main computer, my /home is on a separate drive, mounted in a slide in tray. When I do a fresh install, I remove the drive and then mount it again after the install. I also make back ups of /home, /etc and a couple of other directories.
When testing stuff, i more than once ran into unusable /homes. But that was merely DE config issues, that were not solvable. So i just created another user. Since they lived brotherly in the same partition, i could always get to the files i needed with adapting the authorization. As i was both users, i knew my passwords, so there would never be any trouble that could not be solved. In case of a wrecked password there was always root. I have several installs running on several boxes and laptops, and there are also several /homes. I always manage to find my files. And as most is done in Browsers, there are sync-addons that let you get all addons from a browser installed at once, x-marks can sync bookmarks, passwords, history, open tabs. The mail, i leave i on the mailserver, so i won't miss them. But i did not change from 32 > 64 bit on the same machine. I always used 32 bits sw on a 32 bits machine, and 64 on a 64. But i would want to know what would really happen, so i would just try it... And create another user, if it would not work out. kind regards, Rob. -- Have a nice time, Oddball. OS: Linux 2.6.37.6-0.11-desktop i686 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@EEEPC-ROB.site Systeem: openSUSE 11.4 (i586) KDE: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) "release 6" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org