王召峰 wrote: > I happen to start my laptop with a DVD(containing Fedora 10 iso file) in > the CD-ROM, > so it enters the installation or update environment, I didn't feel like > to reset, so I moved on, > chose the update choice, hoping it will do nothing while going on, but > after update completed, the reset failed > I started the machine, logined with old account 'houghes', but it said: > home/houghes doesn't exist! > so I lost all the data in my home directary! > help! this is really frustrating You don't provide enough information to really tell, but it sounds like you *installed* F10 instead of updating. The default during install is to overwrite existing partitions. If this is the case, your old OS is definitely gone. Check the home directory contents by doing ls -al /home . If there is nothing there, your data is probably gone. But also check if there are any partitions outside your current OS by running /sbin/blkid or df. If there are, perhaps one of them was ignored by the update and actually contains your old home directory with all your data. You should be able to then mount that directory and copy the old data to your new home directory. Post back if you are still having problems. An installation DVD is dangerous if you don't give it respect. To prevent this in future you should go into the bios of your laptop as it is starting and change the boot order so that HD is used before CD/DVD. Then you have to manually change it back before you can start an install DVD. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
