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Grant Edwards composed on 2015-08-04 17:20 (UTC): |
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> Felix Miata wrote: |
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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, |
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> Can we ask why? |
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Because, assuming it's feasible, I can? :-) |
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1-I just find upgrade processes more enjoyable than inital installations and |
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their follow-up tedium getting from defaults back to the way I like things to |
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work. |
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2-From one installation to the next, I typically forget installation choices |
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that in hindsight I would not have made. |
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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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For some "degenerate" value of 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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Seriously, more than a day? |
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Now that I've seen several thread responses subsequent to this one, I'm |
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leaning towared just doing a fresh installation, but I'm curious about what |
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would happen by trying, and how long it really would take. |
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Skipping or after attemping upgrade, I'd chroot from an existing, probably |
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openSUSE rather than Fedora, because I have Tumbleweed all the way back to |
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11.2 to choose from. Would there be any particular advantage to picking a |
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particular one to use, with/without systemd, or a kernel version close, or |
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newer, or older, than that which will be emerged? |
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I like that eselect list currently offers a kde sans systemd sans plasma |
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option. Ultimately what I'd like to do is get Gentoo on at least one of my |
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much faster systems, but only after enough experience with it to have a |
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respectable shot at putting Trinity on it instead of any of the more popular |
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DEs. This machine is a guinea pig for familiarization purposes. |
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-- |
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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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