🚀 go-pugleaf

I run SuSE 6.2 and Win98 on this box, and I just trashed /opt!  I was
mucking about (obviously), and formatted the wrong drive in Windows.
In my efforts to recover the situation, the partition has since
been abortively type changed from FAT to ext2, deleted, recreated as
unformatted by Partition Magic 3 and deleted again.  (That sequence
may not be accurate -- I probably lost track.)  Eventually I managed to
boot normally after commenting out the appropriate line in /etc/fstab,
but of course I've lost loads of stuff -- eg I'm currently using fvwm2
instead of kwm -- and until I get tape backup arranged, I backup only
home directories and /etc.  Is there any way the data could be recovered?
If not, any suggestions as to the easiest way to get back to square 1?
Of course, I never bothered to save the installed packages configuration
in yast.  :-(

I'm asking here because I've previously gotten great help in d.t.pc, but
suggestions as to more appropriate ng's will also be gratefully accepted.

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Robin Faichney