--- Philippe Landau <lists@user-land.org> wrote:
Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
Therefore X was messed up ... how come ? It worked fine up to the night before. I turned off the computer in the end of my working session. An update could be the culprit.
I noticed that my laptop is being updated pretty frequently. When I am notified that some new patches are ready I am at a loss whether to install them or not.
In short I had to reinstall SuSE 10.3 which fixed the problem. But the serious difficulty was to save three directories where I have all my recent developments. I thought through knoppix I could mount both the internal and external hard drive and make copies. Apparently knoppix mounts the peripherals in a read-only mode (???) so .. forget about it. No, it does to protect users, but right-click a drive on the desktop and choose the option to make them writable.
Thank you. I did not know that. The previous time I used knoppix was over 2 years ago. But I would expect a technician that I pay as the Linux "expert" to know that. I saw this guy groping for a solution just like me.
Fortunately I have a web site on a remote server. So from the simple text- mode I could compress and ftp my directories to my web site from which I could recover them after reinstalling SuSE 10.3
As a consequence I fell behind my schedule. To prevent future emergencies I am thinking of getting another laptop/notebook. You are right, if you depend on your computer, you need a backup computer at the ready.
I am planning to get another laptop. A dual core. I have no time to update myself about what is available put together a configuration. Thank you, Maura
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