Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrading from 2005 S1 to 2008.0?

[b.n.]

Grant Edwards ha scritto:
> On 2009-03-10, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>> Douglas J Hunley wrote:
>>> Is it possible to upgrade an existing 2005 S1 install to 2008.0? I gave it a
>>> quick try and ran into multiple issues. Before I expend hrs trying to make it
>>> work, does anyone know if it's an exercise in futility or not? Thx
>> If it were me, I would save the world file, /rtc and /home and
>> just reinstall.  There are several updates that would be
>> pretty extensive and tedious to say it lightly.  I think in
>> the long run, a reinstall would be much faster and easier.
>>
>> Giving a little more thought, maybe you should not even save much of
>> /etc either.  The make.conf file may be OK but I suspect there are huge
>> changes to everything else too.
>
> Save the old /etc somewhere.  You might not be able to use most
> of the files as is, but there are a lot of little pieces of
> information in them that you'll need.  Cutting/pasting them
> into the new install is way easier than figuring everything out
> again from scratch.
>

I would also save the kernel config, for the very same reasons (It won't
work by itself, but it will be useful nonetheless).

m.