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On Tuesday 04 Aug 2015 18:20:40 Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2015-08-04, Felix Miata <mrmazda@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> > That's right, May 2011, my first and only Gentoo installation, 32 bit on |
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> > an old Athlon, which means no sse2, and kernel 2.6.37. It coexists in |
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> > multiboot on one HD with 12 installations of Fedora and openSUSE. I'd |
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> > like to upgrade it rather than installing fresh, |
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> Can we ask why? |
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> > if it's doable. |
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> It probably is (for some degnerate value of "doable"). |
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> My gut feeling is that a fresh install is going to be a _lot_ easier |
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> and faster. A fresh install will take a couple hours. An upgrade will |
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> take somewhere between a couple days and a couple weeks. |
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+1 |
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Back up your /var/lib/portage/world and /etc, then use a LiveCD to follow the |
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Gentoo handbook. After you download and untar a stage 3 filesystem you can |
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copy back your /var/lib/portage/world, build a new kernel and |
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emerge -uaDv world |
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You can use your old config files in your /etc back up to make any quick edits |
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necessary on your new installation. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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