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On 1/21/2012 01:56 PM, Daniel da Veiga wrote: |
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> If its not being used and outage is not a problem, I would recommend |
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> reinstalling. I'm against doying it, but 2 years is a lot, if you have |
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> any servers (MySQL, PHP) it would be an issue, you'll have MAJOR |
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> changes to X, OpenRC and I'm not even talking about the kernel, udev, |
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> etc. |
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> I would back it up and reinstall, guess it would take less time and be |
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> way smoother. |
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> Just my 2 cents... |
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I agree. I once tried something similar and after a couple of weeks of |
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virtually endless frustration, I decided to do a fresh install of the latest |
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version of Gentoo. |
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I wholeheartedly agree that it would take far less time and be far smoother. |
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To the OP: If you don't have a good way of backing up your important data, |
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just Google "RIPLinuX" (not case sensitive). Actually I'll just give you the |
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link to the site: |
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http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ |
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Kent Robotti is the creator and maintainer of "Rescue is Possible Linux". He |
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has several versions, and that all contain DAR, and now also contain 32 and 64 |
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bit versions of the kernel. If you can boot this system you are trying to |
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update into Riplinux, then you can back up everything with DAR and reinstall |
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without the worry of losing anything. |
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Chris |
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