[gentoo-user] Re: want to upgrade 50 month old installation

[Grant Edwards]

On 2015-08-04, Felix Miata <mrmazda@×××××××××.net> wrote:

> That's right, May 2011, my first and only Gentoo installation, 32 bit on an
> old Athlon, which means no sse2, and kernel 2.6.37. It coexists in multiboot
> on one HD with 12 installations of Fedora and openSUSE. I'd like to upgrade
> it rather than installing fresh,

Can we ask why?

> if it's doable.

It probably is (for some degnerate value of "doable").

My gut feeling is that a fresh install is going to be a _lot_ easier
and faster.  A fresh install will take a couple hours. An upgrade will
take somewhere between a couple days and a couple weeks.

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