** Reply to message from "Rajko M." <rmatov101@charter.net> on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:33:59 -0600
On Saturday 29 December 2007 03:03:07 pm Stan Goodman wrote:
Tomorrow or the next day I'll do the necessarily retrieval of data that was not backed up. Then I'll install v10.3 over the failed upgrade, but with some changes in partitioning. I will alloacate 20GB for /root and the same amount for /home, so that user apps and data will not be affected by any future upgrading disaster.
The upshot of having taken the trouble to try to retrieve the contents of the /home directory of my failed upgrade is the revelation that I need not have bothered. After I mounted the /dev/sda6/home (sda6 is the entire old system), dir showed a content of zero. I am very surprised that an update, no matter how screwed up it becomes (and especially without giving any hint of trouble during the "upgrade process", can actually delete the entire content of the installation. Yet openSuSE seems to be up to that task. So thanks again for all those who helped me along to get to this point. First thing tomorrow mornind, I will install v10.3 anew, without the need to bring over anything at all from the destroyed v10.2. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel Old Fart n. slang (old fart'; in New England, old faaht') Tribal Elder. Used in deprecation especially by males younger than 20 years. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org