Re: Backup Question <System & User configuration>

zmdmw52 wrote:
Thanks for the reply. I have copied the /home dir to ext USB drive
already. Will also backup the other 2 dirs.

OK.

Now doing the NVidia drivers, I think it is easier to just do them all
again from the start. That is just one click.

I agree, re-installing the nvidia drivers would not be much of a
problem, being as have already done it twice.

One-click is all that is needs. At least that is all that I needed.

From what you have mentioned, I just need to copy-paste the /home dir
contents to the new /home dir. But will this also restore the updated
& new applications (done thro online update, packman repo, 3rd-party
codec installs, etc....so it will be a time-consuming effort to re-
install them all over again. Is it possible to backup-restore the apps
by copy-pasteing (I beleieve the apps are in the / (i.e. root) dir.

Export YaST settings in YaST, software, software management and you can
then import it. I have no experience with it, but it should get things
back to whatever you have now, as long as things are installed via YaST
with repositories.

On openSUSE 11.0 with updates, the net connection using a DSL Router
connected through a USB port (detected as eth1: TI NDIS USB Device,
where TI = Texas Instruments) worked fine till now (installed a week
ago) ; but by error I altered the connection settings to include DHCP
(i.e. obtain DNS Name addresses via DHCP). Now, I cannot configure it
connect using a static IP & using the DNS Servers that the ISP
provides.

OK.


Now, the 'Update DNS data via DHCP' box remains checked (it is greyed
out, as seen in the picture) & I cannot connect to the web. The
screenshot is that of the Yast Network Configuration screen with the
error is here -

http://lvznow.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pRtlIJQHvXf9lNHCWxmMDLY4N-Scv98HFVVA0Lm-3JMo4sRInkw-IYpZVDj-WnPwtRzQKb8c9ZQQ/Screenshot-Network%20Settings%20-%20YaST_28Aug08.jpg

OK, first we must be sure that you indeed can not connect or that the
problem is a DNS problem. Do `ping 64.233.167.99` (ctrl-c to stop) and
then do `ping google.com` and see what happens. If the first doesn't
work, it is a connection problem.
If the first works and the second doesn't, then it is a DHCP preoblem
related to the image above.

If those do not work above, reading on is useless.

Add e.g. 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 as Name Server 1 and 2. Or
use those from your provider.

I have a feeling that if I can get rid of the DHCP-enable option (the
grayed-out button in the pict in url above), then after changing to
static IP & DNS (ie I would eneter them manually from provided by
ISP), it would resolve the problem, since the past week, I had net
access with the static IP option). Any suggestions/further steps on
how to resolve this?

See above. Also look at what is in the other tabs. It is not enough to
do a new installation.


houghi
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