I tried to install 11.2 and ended up with a seemingly more or less blank harddisc afterwards.
(The biggest disaster so far I’ve ever got using Linux… 
Here is what happened:
- My machine has a Intel Core 2 Duo with one SATA hard disc with 500 GB;
I had 11.1 (64 Bit) installed and running fine
As a preparation among other things I printed /etc/fstab and the output of ‘df -h’. - Downloaded Suse 11.2, 64 Bit iso image
- checked md5sum (ok)
- created DVD (again checked md5 sum reported by k3b, ok)
- booted the DVD (unfortunately with my older DVD ROM drive, see below)
- Told the partitioning scheme to just reformat two partitions for / and /home, but to leave all the partitions themselves as they are.
(I have two sets of partitions intended for / and /home; when I update to a new version, I reuse the older one of these pairs; so for 11.2 I reuse the 11.0 partitions but leave the 11.1 partitions as they are) - The installation started to install the packets, but then complained about wrong checksums for libz, zsh, and KDE language packs en and de. (No error messages or even warnings before these).
Because this now sounded like a more or less unusable system, I cancelled the installation using the mouse button for this. - Next time I started the same DVD but from the DVD writer (a newer drive)
- But the install only got to check the partition scheme present; this came back with something like “Couldn’t read the partitions, the proposed partition scheme can’t be changed.”
Looking at the proposed scheme, there seemed to be four completely different partitions than the ones I had. In horror I cancelled a second time. - I tried to boot the old system, but this failed with a grub error.(sorry, don’t have the exact message available here right now)
- Booting Sysrscue-CD (1.2.1) also only showed the “wrong” four partitions.
But when I tried to mount my “lost” partitions, this was possible and the contents could be read.
There could be more then four partitions mounted, even only four were shown by Suse install and sysrescue CD.
What is going on here ? (It looks like the Suse install had a problem with the cancelling of the install (?))
Are my partitions just “hidden” somehow ? Any way to unhide them ?
My current plan is, to get a (new) second harddisc, install this and use this one to install 11.2, so I can leave my old hard disc untouched.
Any comments and further suggestions on this ? (Besides not to use the old DVD ROM drive any more 