Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Mike Williams <mike@××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] upgrading from 2005.0 x86, to 2006.0 amd64
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 22:22:48
Message-Id: 200603132220.06239.mike@gaima.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] upgrading from 2005.0 x86, to 2006.0 amd64 by Simon Stelling
1 On Friday 10 March 2006 13:59, Simon Stelling wrote:
2 > > I'm not willing to re-install, that's just lazy :)
3 >
4 > And we're not willing to support you :P
5 >
6 > Really, it's not that easy to switch. It's rather nearly impossible. It'll
7 > take you far less to just re-install and take over your old /home than to
8 > try doing wierd stuff.
9
10 OK, so you were right, and I was an idiot :)
11
12 I got into a right old mess with broken and incompatible libs, so I've now got
13 loads of broken cruft, and a nearly fully ready new install in a chroot (a
14 3800+ X2 is fast!) ready to blitz the cruft.
15
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