The Sunday 2004-02-01 at 00:31 -0800, Tom Reagan wrote:
I tried to use "yast2" at the command line to restore the system. The
Version?
In fighting this battle I described earlier (and copied to this thread just to have a point of reference), I just remembered I did a backup on Thursday night. I did a "multiple partition" backup (ie. I have a ton of files--probably around 700--in some subdirectory under /tmp that all are about the size of a diskette). I just had a thought that I would love (if it's possible and won't take like 10 hours).
What!!? :-O Oh, my... Why floppy size? That's done only if you intend to copy them to 700 floppies... ouch. You can specify of the destination drive, for example 700 Mb for CDRoms. Or a single file, whatever you prefer (at least using 8.2). How come you did it that way? Oh, well...
1)Could I somehow restore the backup that I did through the Yast GUI without having windowed (KDE) environment?
Try mc (midnight commander). It is possible to open each tgz and copy the contents elsewhere. I don't know how Yast handles that. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson