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Is their any way to do a repair install to put it back the way it was when I first installed it.
It is 9.2 pro and I have the CD,s and the DVD,s.
The reason I am asking is I have been doing a lot of experimenting and have ****eded it up completely.
As I do not want to lose all my work is this possible.
PCLOS Gnome 2008
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My advice to anyone setting up Linux is to put /home on a spare partition. If you have done this, then you can re-install without losing any personal files or setups. If you have not, I will suggest how you may put things right.
First you do a re-install, but shrink your current Linux partition, make a new one, and install to that. Declare your old install partition as /home. Don't set up a "normal" user, just root. When you have successfully set up your new system, log in as root. Run your preferred file manager (Konqueror) and you will find your old setup under /home. If you had downloaded any alternative wallpapers, cursor themes, etc, copy them to your new setup. If not, delete everything under /home except /home/home/alan2273 (or whatever your user name is). Drag and drop alan2273 from /home/home to /home. Delete /home/home . Now set up your user (the same name as before) log out and log in again as yourself. Everything will (fingers-crossed) be in the right place.
Of course you will have to do your software updates over again. Once you have a nice working system, do a backup. The best way to do this is run a rescue disk or any live distro such as Knoppix or PClinuxOS. You need to run Partition Image. Say your root partition has ended up on /dev/hda7 and your /home on /dev/hda6 (swap on /dev/hda5 - quite a normal setup). To backup your root partition, mount /dev/hda6 at, say, /mnt/hda6, run partition image, and backup /dev/hda7 onto /mnt/hda6. You can go back into SuSE, copy the image onto CD or DVD, and delete it. You can now do a similar procedure to back up your /home partition. Now you have something quick and restorable to fall back on if you ****** it up again!
BTW, ****** refers to a very strong cleaning fluid: Best Universal Grit, Grime and Effluent Remover. If Flash don't brighten it and Ajax won't whiten it, then ****** it!
ASUS M2N32WS Pro — 2*1024Mb Corsair Value Select RAM — AM2 4200+ — XFX GeForce 7600GT Fatal1ty — 500Gb WD5000AAKS SATA Drive — PCLinuxOS
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Thanks for that advice.
When I have done all that I can ****** it up again and restore it a lot quicker 
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I do not know if suse will let you do this as I did it on slackware.
When I needed a reinstall I copied everything I wanted to a /backup folder. I used a live disc & erased everything except the /backup directory (the Slackware install disc is a command line only live disc but you could use knoppix etc - the last time I tried suse live it didn't show up the hard drive).
When I installed I just chose the 'do not format' option & when all had installed there was all my data in a nice convenient folder with packages ready to install & configuration files to copy.
Once again the swimming pools of life had been tainted by the incontinent toddlers of fate
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