I tried to use "yast2" at the command line to restore the system. The only problem is that since I backed up using "multiple partition" (as described below), they're all in one directory on my hard drive ( /suse_backup ). And yast2 for multiple partitions seems to only allow you to restore them by specifying a "mountable" device. In my case, it lets me choose my CD-ROM, my CD-RW, and my floppy. Since each of the multiple partitions in my is supposed to be the size of a floppy, I tried to link the floppy and /suse_backup using "ln -s" and "ln -F", to no avail. The "ln" command kept complaining about them being on different devices (which makes sense). 1)Any suggestions as to how to get trick yast2 into letting me use the multiple partitions in the /suse_backup directory,such as by linking? (In other words, am I just doing the above trick I tried WRONG?) 2)My only other idea was to copy all the backup files (if I even can) to my Windoze box...and then burn each of the "multiple partition" files to a CD or two...and then use that/those CD(s) in my Linux box. This may be a waste of time though. Thoughts? 3)Or am I going about all of this wrong altogether? Suggestions (in yast or otherwise)? Tom Reagan <tom_is_my_name@yahoo.com> wrote: Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 23:24:20 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Reagan To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Can I restore a Yast backup without doing it through the Yast GUI? 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). 1)Could I somehow restore the backup that I did through the Yast GUI without having windowed (KDE) environment? 2)Does anybody know if this works well? I am internally debating whether to re-install everything from the SuSE disks, but obviously I'd prefer to restore my previous stable system. Thanks, Tom As a point of reference...here was the subject from earlier tonight (and for clarification, it seems that the boot process TRIES to get the KDE login screen to come up--I can see it happen--but then *poof* it goes back to just the text login)... Subject: KDE Problems That Have Been Getting Worse and Worse Tom Reagan wrote: Last night, At the start of this evening, I was running the version of KDE that comes with Suse 8.1 (on the CDs), which I believe was KDE3.0.3. (Can someone verify that?) I was running the version of konqueror that comes with SuSE 8.1 (In addition, I had everything looking how I wanted it to look, but I digress.) I have been having problems with K3b burning properly and as I had the version that comes with the SuSE 8.1 CDs, I thought I should install a later version before trying to get it to work. I have read a lot that says the later versions are a lot nicer and fix a lot of bugs. I was aiming for version 0.10, with hopes that I could get version 0.11.1 working, but I knew that was a stretch. In the process, I found out that I hade to update KDE to KDE3.1, which I did. Only problem was, to do so meant ultimately I couldn't have kdebase3-SuSE. So I uninstalled it thinking that things wouldn't look how I wanted, but that was more of a minor annoyance, and relative to getting k3b version 0.10 installed, it seemed worth it to me. Well, immediately I saw problems: 1)k3b version 0.10 still wouldn't install--I don't remember why at this point, but that's I didn't really notice, because 2)konqueror was no longer working AT ALL So, I installed the updated kdebase3-konqueror.rpm from the suse.com website, and in the process installed the updated kdebase3-kdm, kde_base3-ksysguardd,kdebase3-nsplugin, as well as the four different kdeaddons3-xxxxxx. I also installed kdelibs3.rpm and a few other "base" KDE packages (and glib packages). I believe most if not all were for KDE3.1. Anyway, they were all straight from the SuSE 8.1 KDE pages. I figured this would cure the problem. No dice. In fact, after rebooting it seemed worse, because I wasn't seeing any of the SuSE stuff anymore (on my background, etc.) although that was to be expected. And konqueror still didn't work. So, I then re-updated back to the KDE3.0 versions straight off the CDs (including kdebase3-SuSE). Now, the problem has gotten even worse. I get a login prompt to my box, but I don't get the nice SuSE login from before and I never get into KDE at all. I have no idea what to post, but let me know and I'll do exactly as you ask (although it's going to be tough posting the exact messages as I am having to write you from a separate Windoze machine). Thanks, Tom --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!