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That's right, May 2011, my first and only Gentoo installation, 32 bit on an |
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old Athlon, which means no sse2, and kernel 2.6.37. It coexists in multiboot |
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on one HD with 12 installations of Fedora and openSUSE. I'd like to upgrade |
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it rather than installing fresh, if it's doable. My initial steps have been: |
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1-scan through: |
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a: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Upgrading_Gentoo |
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b: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Working/Portage |
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2-clone the existing partition to a larger one to be the upgrade target |
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3-boot the target |
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4-note that there exists no /etc/portage/ |
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5-# emerge --sync |
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which warned I need to emerge portage before doing anything else |
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6-# emerge portage |
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This produced a longish warning: |
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!!! /etc/make.profile is not a symlink and will probably prevent most merges. |
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!!! It should point into a profile within /usr/portage/profiles/ |
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!!! (You can safely ignore this message when syncing. It's harmless.) |
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!!! If you have just changed your profile configuration, you should revert |
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!!! backto the previous configuration. Due to your current profile being |
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!!! invalid, allowed actions are limited to --help, --info, --sync, and |
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!!! --version. |
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So, /etc/make.profile exists, but it's a symlink to a non-existant |
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../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop. Is all I need to do |
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to be able to proceed to change the symlink to point to ...x86/13.0/des...? |
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Any suggestions or words of wisdom? |
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"The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant |
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words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) |
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Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! |
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Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ |
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