I got RH 5.2 installed at a TClug installfest in April of 1999 (LILO dual boot with Win 95 Linux on a separate HD). About a year later I started using it significantly. I plan to upgrade to RH 6.2 (re install) on Sat - (I bought the RH 6.2 Standard upgrade box which I'll bring.) I want to copy all the stuff in my home directory to my 'spare' partition before the reinstall and maybe a few other files I've changed. However I in the lst couple weeks I've developed problems (file system errors maybe others related to having an unclean shutdown when Xwindows locked up tho so many attempts since them I dont really know what happened) so I cant get the 5.2 RH up to make the backup. Is anyone going to be around that can help me with rescuing my old file before reinstalling? The upgrade box includes a floppy that may allow me boot from and copy the files tho I have not attempted it. I'm a bit hesitant since I still dont feel too confident . Fred -- Fred H. Olson fholson at cohousing.org Minneapolis,MN 55411 (612)588-9532 Amateur radio: WB0YQM List manager of: Cohousing-L and Nbhd-tc (Twin Cities Neighborhood issues list) More info: http://www.mtn.org/~fholson/sig-detail.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org