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Due to fail while trying to upgrade my 14.1 to 14.2 according to https://docs.salixos.org/wiki/How_to_up ... .1_to_14.2 (it crashed on glibmm upgrade) my system now is totally corrupted, so, probably I need to perform fresh installation (or there is an any chance to restore it??)

The question is what a preffered way to keep my home data when installing 14.2 - I providently keep it on separate partition. Am I need to install it typically, and after installation mount the partition and change fstab? Or choose this partition as home during installation and prevent formatting?

Or, possibly, I can boot from USB with my root and somehow restart the upgrade process? I think I've understood why I'm failed (besides upgrading system on 13th) - my stupid has'nt disable slackonly repo

xavier wrote:Or, possibly, I can boot from USB with my root and somehow restart the upgrade process? I think I've understood why I'm failed (besides upgrading system on 13th) - my stupid has'nt disable slackonly repo

You can try to chroot into the failed system and see if it will upgrade from there.
Follow these instruction for chrooting http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:slackw ... from_media

xavier wrote:
The question is what a preferred way to keep my home data when installing 14.2 - I providently keep it on separate partition. Am I need to install it typically, and after installation mount the partition and change fstab? Or choose this partition as home during installation and prevent formatting?

If you have your /home on a separate partition, then you can preserve it through a fresh install. Start the installation and install as normal until you get the "Select other Linux partition" screen. Here you select the partition which hasyour existing /home, Once sleeted say No to reformatting and for the mount point put /home. You will need to insure that when you create the user at the end of the installation process that you use the same user name and UID.

laprjns wrote:You can try to chroot into the failed system and see if it will upgrade from there.

Thanks, I've tried to use chroot, but it seems there is some serious problems with libs (glibс I guess) - I even can't do chroot without use bash-static, so I decided that clean system will be better choise, and install fresh 14.2 perserving home as you recommend. Thanks again!