On Friday 09 October 2009 02:14:29 pm Doug McGarrett wrote:
At 09:30 PM 10/8/2009 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
On Thursday 08 October 2009 05:01:23 pm kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
Up to and including 11.1-x86-64 I have always installed a new suse version in a clean partition, but I also used a fresh copy of my old /home dir. This appears to cause some sporadic problems to some, i never experienced any myself, but then again I have not used kde4, i am still with 3, my trusty old dinosaur. but that will change in the not too distant future, so i ask: what is the consensus these days on /home? if the recommendation is to start with a fresh /home, how does one transfer things like kmail, addressbook and organizer/contact content and a host of other shtuff accumulated over time? is there a recommended list of transferrables and/or transfer proceedures? how about a "must start from scratch" list? tia d.
No need to start from scratch. Just use your old home. What I would do is install 11.1 or 11.2 and SET IT TO BOOT TO RUNLEVEL 3. Let the install
finish,
and then roll in your old home directory. Then edit /etc/inittab or use yast runlevel editor to change the default to runlevel 5 and you should be done.
The key is to roll the home directory in before you start kde4 because I
know
it will pull a lot of your kde3 settings in. What I don't know is whether these checks are one-time-only (on first start up) or if these checks are
done
each time. So if I wanted to make certain as much of the kde3 config as possible was picked up by kde4, that's the approach I would take. Others may have a different approach, but starting with the kde4.3-beta releases, this has worked well.
I apologise for leaving the whole correspondence above, but I thought it wise to let everyone have the essence of the question. My problem, is that I don't quite understand the answer. If you install a new version, doesn't that wipe out the whole drive? If you just "install" as the responder suggests, isn't the old /home wiped out? How do you "roll in" your old home directory?
BTW, I will probably install Kubuntu, rather than SuSE, as from what I am reading here, it's better. (Wearing asbestos suit!)
--doug
doug, it is wiser to install rooot (/) in a separate partition. Many also use separate partitions for /usr, /var and other major "subdirectories" of a linucs install. and there are some brave souls who use the same /home partition with not only different versions of one distro, they also jump to other distro's. The theory goes that if you run kde 3 or 4, you could check your kmail in suse 10.3 in the morning, fedora in the afternoon and 11.2 factory at night!!! all you need is different / partitions, a good grub (lilo?) and a proper /etc/fstab, set up during the installation process, modified by booting to a console. d. d. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org