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On 2015-04-10, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> 150410 Mick wrote: |
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>>> On 10/04/2015 19:29, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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>>>> My Gentoo system is kinda old ... not in the sense of not being updated |
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>>> regularly, but in the sense of "used for a (too?) long time" |
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>> I still have a box running the same Gentoo installation since 2005. |
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>> I had another which died due to hardware failure |
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>> with its original 2003 installation. |
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> Same here : I've never re-installed Gentoo in the same machine, |
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I've been using Gentoo on a handfull of machines for something like 13 |
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years now, and have only re-installed a handfull of times in a few |
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differnt situations: |
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1) Though I have done many motherboard replacements without |
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reinstalling, on one occasion after a hardware failure the new |
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motherboard and drive arrangement was different enough that I |
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decided to reinstall. I'm pretty sure I could have used a livecd |
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or rescuecd to get the old installation tweaked and running on the |
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new hardware, but a reinstall seemed simpler. |
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2) RAM or root hard drive failure corrupted caused system crashes. |
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After the underlying hardware problem was fixed, I didn't trust |
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the contents of the root fs. |
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3) Switching from 32-bit install to 64 install. That's happened a |
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few times, and I don't think there's a practical alternative to |
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reinstalling. |
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> but updated weekly on the everyday system & less often on the others ; |
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> ANB2 (2003) still opens up, but won't talk to today's mice, |
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> ANB3 (2007) has a graphics-card problem, so can't boot intelligibly, |
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> ANB4 (2012 : this one) has no software problems, |
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> Horace (EEE-PC 2009) was recently updated successfully after 2 yr . |
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> Short advice : you're probably wasting your time (smile). |
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