[SOLVED]saving home directory issue

Numlock is off in RC2 live, so if you have a cipher in the password you might not have noticed that it did not register the number.
Use the ciphers at the top of your keyboard.

Thanks for the suggestion Yamal, it's really appreciated. That well may be the what happened; though I doubt it.

I think for now I will just upgrade using apt-get or synaptic. The repositories have been stable enough since moving to the Ubuntu packages that the risk is negligable.
Downloading the .iso and installing via Cd is a habit I picked up when the repositories were less stable.

First let me just acknowledge that we are here talking about 'Release Candidate' versions.
Over the last two, RC1 RC2 I have noticed a tendency to hang at the 95% point you mention but also at 70% using different copies of install discs & using both on different computers.
By repeated attempts I managed to get the installs completed but it does seem strange as it never happened before & was repeatable over different machines. Also noted in my case the 'need' to use F3 to determine video, if not Mepis was lost. No big deal but it never happened before the RC's. OK DATSIT for the info feedback for what it's worth.
Either way it's... "GO MEPIS-the Windoze Killer"
Mepis just gets better & better.

I have had some strange problems installing Mepis from re-used rewritable CDs. Then when I burned the same Mepis ISO to a new blank CD the problems were gone.

I know that everyone's HW is different, but I have had no problems with M v6.0 RC2 on my home-grown PC and my HP Pavilion.

I have had problems burning to maxwell cd-rw's. I always verify md5sum when using k3b, 1st to check the file I downloaded and 2nd to check that what I burned is what I downloaded. With the maxwell cd-rw's I can get a good first burn but after that k3b will say I got a good burn but the md5sum check fails.

I have had the same problem on different machines with different brands of burners and other software using the maxwells. I have had no problems using verbatium cd-rw's.

I have had several problems burning discs which is why I like k3b. K3b lets me easily verify from download to final burn that everthing is correct.

Has anyone else had problems with other brands of media? I know I will buy verbatium products.

I had encountered similar long ago with some cheap Akai CD-Rw's but have long since sent them to 'CD heaven' or wherever they go. But the two different brands & speeds of CD-RW on two different machines showed the same symptoms.
I wonder if it is where the CD changes speed?
Bought some 'gold' CD-R's & with the next install I will try both out of interest. Presently all seems to be running fine so it's a matter of "leave sleeping dogs lie"

K3b itself is usually very reliable.

Dare I suggest that the "brand" alone is unfortunately a rather unreliable way of selecting what should be good CD's these days 'cos it depends more on the factory & other quality specs moreso than the brand unfortunately.

Several years ago when there was a worldwide shortage of CD's manufacturers were getting their CD's made in a variety of factories & some normally top brands were selling disks that were utter crap. I won't name brands as the situation has since changed.

And then of course there are differences between recorders.

Oh well - as they say - "life wasn't meant to be simple"

YAMAL,I reinstalled using the same cd as before. I used your suggestion and everything worked. Though the install still hung at 95%, it had no effect that I could see. Thanks again for your help.