So: I downloaded and burnt the KDE ISO and .... and ... I am unhappy. Although the 'help' seemed to imply there should have been an 'install' option on the CD's boot menu, there wasn't. The only install I could find was a desktop icon after booting. So I used that. And that led to more problems. The disk partitioner *did* recognise that I had a LVM. I could even tell it to read in the existing /etc/fstab for the mount points. But as it went to do the install it ignored all that. The LVM file systems (which included /home/, /tmp/, /var/, /usr/, /usr/share/ and /usr/local) were ignored. They weren't mounted and updated. In fact the root partition was zapped, all my settings were zapped and the installer tried to install everything - /usr/*, /var/*, /home/* ...) on the small root partition. Of course it failed. Things are now very screwed up. I had _some_ backup, but not enough to deal with the complete destruction of everything under /etc. When I've done upgrades of other distributions they've 'added' in parts and respected my configuration changes, the new files coming in as '*.rpmnew' where applicable. I am unhappy. Very unhappy. Quite apart from putting /etc/ back together again, its clear that the installation did not write to the LVM version of /usr/lib and /usr/bin. As a result, lots of things don't work. YAST2 is one of them. So, what went wrong? Did I do something wrong or am I deluded in thinking that this was an 'upgrade' rather than a reinstall? How can I persuade the installer to make use of the LVM volumes? How can I persuade the installer to respect changed files in /etc ? -- Help Wanted: Telepath. You know where to apply. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org