Hello SuSE folk. Congratulations to me. Just got message 9.2 has been shipped to me. Awaiting it is a brand new AMD 64 system. Intend to swap both old hard drives into the new box with 512 megs of ram. The drives are 6gb (hda windoz) where the backup is, and a 80gb llnux (SuSE 8.2) which I will wipe and repartition for 9.2 (Should I use "virtual" drives to avoid the hassle of determining partition sizes?) Preparing for this, I have been doing kdar backups of my /home partition and some other /data partitions which I want to keep onto the other drive in my old system. (hda, as above) Now, after installing 9.2 onto hdb I will need to restore my /home and the other / partiions which I have saved-backed up. I guess the first order of business would be to install kdar since it would have been wiped with the repartioning process. Not sure about this but I think I can pick and choose from the backup on hda to my new partitions on hdb. Next, (or before) I would have to go and download apt, right? It is a different version for 9.0 and higher than my 8.2 version I think. I have always thought that apt and Yast2 were mutually exclusive, You can only use one or the other, but lately on the list people have been saying they can use both. I really love apt and have been using it for years. Have never ever used Yast for updates. Question is: Am I going about this in the right way? Any suggestions, corrections from the guru's on this list? Bob S PS There will probably be some 64 bit questions coming soon.