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#11

Installation / Re: Saving and reusing existin...

Last post by bushyiii - January 06, 2025, 04:40:35 PM

Your procedure is perfect,it's well thought out. 
Thank you for posting your method

#12

Installation / Re: Saving and reusing existin...

Last post by bin - January 02, 2025, 12:02:48 PM

What you want to do is absolutely fine. But, there are a couple of things that you have to remember. Your /home contains not only all your files and data but also all the configs and other hidden files that make stuff work.
Some of these can be re-used, some not.
Also, linux doesn't remember you as a name but as a user number. So, if I do "id -u robin" it returns user id 1000. 1000 is used by nearly all linux distros as the starting point for user ids, but not all.
That can mess things up doing what you suggest as all the files will have the wrong permissions.
Depending on how the installer is configured it may be that in your case it sees your current home is fully populated and therefore doesn't do anything else.

I use the method you have described all the time. However, what I do is to boot the live/installer medium, then use that to access my hard drive. I then navigate to my /home and rename my home folder using the move command mv. So it would be as shown in the linked image - that's on pcloud. Move - Rename homeAs you can see I have booted off Sparky KDE and accessed the drive via the file manager.
If I had hit enter then my /home would have been renamed. I would then proceed with the installation using manual partitioning as you do.
I set up the user from scratch using my normal user name and once installation is complete I then move what I want from the robinold folder to my new robin folder.
As always - you should always have a full backup before doing this.

#13

Newbie questions / Re: OpenVPN save files ovpn ar...

Last post by galen - January 01, 2025, 04:17:16 PM

solved
needed networkmanager-openvpn-gnome
doh

#14

Installation / Saving and reusing existing ho...

Last post by bushyiii - December 31, 2024, 11:33:36 PM

I had a different linux OS with my HOME directory on a different partition from the OS.  During the install I chose to overwrite the existing OS's partition for Sparking and used to option to save the existing HOME partition.

I assume that after the install my old exiting home directory would now be my Sparky home directory.  I was wrong.  Is there a way I can still achieve my objective?

#15

Newbie questions / OpenVPN save files ovpn are no...

Last post by galen - December 31, 2024, 07:22:11 PM

I'm trying to use TunnelBear and my saved files are not importing into NetworkManager.
The import but all the VPN tab is empty.
Installed
openvpvn
NetworkManager-opnevpn rebooted still not importing save files

any ideas?

I'll try
https://openvpn.net/cloud-docs/tutorials/configuration-tutorials/connectors/operating-systems/linux/tutorial--learn-to-install-and-control-the-openvpn-3-client.html

[NOTE:]

#16

General discussion / Re: Plasma 6?

Last post by 21grams - December 23, 2024, 07:55:48 PM

If having menu or icon issues with plasma 6, read the Plasma 6 Debian Wiki.

NOTE: If upgrading from Orion to Sisters, qt6-svg-plugins should be installed, if not, install before reboot.
After reboot, if the Application Menu is empty, run kbuildsycoca6 --noincremental

#17

Introduction / Re: I'm Umm, Back?

Last post by pavroo - December 21, 2024, 07:51:33 PM

if you install sparky on btrfs file system, which creates subvolumes of root and home (if so), you can backup whole partitions using timeshift and restore theme if any problem.

#18

Introduction / Re: I'm Umm, Back?

Last post by penguin - December 21, 2024, 06:55:28 PM

I have been distrohoper for years. I have tested almost everything and used some of them for months(including Arch). Updating Arch after passed a week or more than a week, can produce unpleasant experience. Never experienced a similar situation with Debian testing distro, updating it after more than a month period.
My friendly advice. Stay with Debian or Debian based distros (even based in test repos...SPARKYLINUX is highly suggested). Actually i have 6 distros in my small HP 2170P (SparkyLinux-rolling,MX Linux,Geco Linux (OpenSUSE -Slowroll),Lubuntu,Spiral Linux and Kali Linux.   

I have been as well. I never liked Ubuntu or its variables with the way Canonical is going.

I used Sparky in the past, so I know what's up with it. I just needed a change to Arch. But now it's like, what are all these daily updates? Do I need them? No.

I have installed SparkyLinux(rolling one) in 2 laptops. In my small HP2170p i do updates very regularly.Each day.In the other one I do when i sign in on it.Sometimes in 2 or 3 weeks or maybe more. I never had problems with the second one. The only problem is when you decide to update less frequently the updates can be a lot(in that case you may need a fast speed internet line to update shortly). Try to update once in 2 or 3 days. Does not hurt if you do it every day.

Would be a clever way to back up SparkyLinux frequently, to have a backup if something happens.I prefer to back up SparkyLinux from another linux system. (I use qt-fsarchiver from my MxLinux).Anyway there are other possibilities to backup and restore.

#19

Sparky Linux kernel / Re: Why only 8 Cores in 6.6.66...

Last post by pavroo - December 21, 2024, 02:10:16 PM

upgrade sparky's kernel and try again

#20

Hardware / Question About Arc A750

Last post by Ze_Mind - December 21, 2024, 01:40:17 AM

I am not sure on Intel's Arc side of things. I ever used NVIDIA and AMD/ATI graphic cards.

Does the Intel Arc A750 have Linux, in this case Debian, support for these cards?

I plan to build a new system, next month, and this card looks rather good.

I'm just not sure it is supported. A few of my friends say it is. But being I'll be using Sparky, I think you would know better.

But, they have been out for a good 2 years, so it's gotta have its bugs ironed out.

Any of you know this? Or own one yourself?

Never mind..