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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
