Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade or start over..

[bn]

Jon Hardcastle ha scritto:
> Hi all,
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> I have a gentoo circa 2008 install that i have pretty much the bare minimal to keep up to date... i now have the problem that i need to upgrade mdadm, lvm and probably a few other bits and pieces. This machine is used almost exclusively as a windows file server.
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> I am getting blocks all over the show and lots of applications needs reinstalling/upgradining on a emerge world. i have also had problems getting the kernel to do what it needs to do a i installed the minimal when i started..
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> So i am wondering... it is easier to try and upgrade it, or as i have 2 raid 1 drives as the operating system drives and the rest of the drives are pure data, i can disconnect one and wipe the other reinstall from fresh as a degraded raid 1 and when i know we are good to go, wipe the disconnected drive and add to the array to resync and go from there?

Well, I am updating my desktop system which was in pretty the same
conditions (kernel, xorg, etc. being stuck since beginning of 2008) and
I must say that, while long and not without bumps, the upgrade has been
not as bad as I thought. Expect to use a week of your time, however -I
still haven't finished even if most critical stuff (kernel, xorg, new
kde) is more or less in place.

Reinstalling maybe is cleaner, but I am unsure it will take less time,
unless you carefully copy your /etc and your user configuration files,
and then you remember why you did what, etc. when putting them back.

m.

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