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Hi folks, |
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Please bear with me, even if this seems a little newbie-sh. |
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I have a perfectly running Gentoo AMD64 system, with XGL and all. Now |
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I've figured that I need to change my CFLAGS. It's some stupidity on my |
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part, please don't ask. So I guess I'll need to rebuild my entire |
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system. |
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Anyway, I have about 11GB free on the hard disk. I am thinking about |
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building binaries of all the installed packages on the system, keep |
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them burnt on a DVD. I'll back up my /etc. All my data partitions |
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and /home are on different partitions, so I don't see any need to back |
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them up. Also, I'll keep the 2006.0 minimal install CD handy. It does |
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support LVM right? What do I do with the stage tarballs? How can I make |
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a snapshot of this working system as a fallback? I remember something |
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about a Stage 4 in the forums a while ago.. I installed this system |
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well over a year ago with a Stage 1 tarball. Should I keep Stage 3 |
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handy? |
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Is there anything else I should be worried about? Have I forgotten |
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something in case something goes wrong and I have to reinstall the |
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entire thing... |
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Another thing, I'll need to make an exact copy of this system, once |
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rebuilt, on a friend's laptop, albeit with a different partition setup. |
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My system has LVM setup, the laptop won't have that. What all needs to |
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be changed? |
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Sorry to ask so many question, I'm just worried about messing up the |
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fine system.. :/ |
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Thanks and regards, |
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Mrugesh |
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