You probably don't have proper permissions to get to your old /home. As root you should not have any trouble accessing the files once the partition is mounted.
rock
Hi,
I'm not sure what the problem is. I tried to install an update from RH 7.1 to RH 8, and it failed. I attempted it several times, again and again it reports at different positions that some package couldn't be installed, accessed or that there is a problem in formatting a partition (I always asked to format the root partition).
I have a partition which was formatted with extf3 and reserved for /home. I can't access my data there anymore, because I can't install RH 8 - for whatever reason. Now I tried Knoppix, it boots well into the system, and is running. No problem. I can see the /home-partition, and see the folders in it, but they are locked. How do I go about it and unlock them? I want to save the data from there, redo the entire harddisk and see if that is the problem...
Any help will be appreciated!
You probably don't have proper permissions to get to your old /home. As root you should not have any trouble accessing the files once the partition is mounted.
rock
Rock is right. To become root just: 'sudo su'
Thanks, that did it!

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