Haven't followed this thread very closely, so pardon me if there are factors which render my suggestion invalid; On Sun, 04 Nov, 2007 at 11:20:52 +0100, Janus wrote:
On Sunday 04 November 2007 05:29, Basil Chupin wrote:
The OP has bought himself an external HD (to be able to do a backup of his 10.0 system before upgrading to 10.3) and is wondering how to go about formatting the HD. James suggested using Yast Partitioner but when OP does this the USB drive doesn't appear in the Partitioner.
Exactly! :-)
Does anything dictate that you *must* use the old system to do the backup? Otherwise you *could* just boot the 10.3 media to a rescue system, and use that to mkfs, mount, and backup to the USBdisk. Worth a shot, no? I mean, the alternative;
I'll keep my fingers crossed. As an alternative I will have to fire up my old Celeron 400 Mhz with 128 MB ram (which I guess will not run recent versions of SuSE), and use it as a backup media (scp over ethernet).
*is* going to take some time... /jon -- YMMV -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org