On Tue, 4 Aug 2015 17:20:40 +0000 (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-08-04, Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.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.
With all userspace software? No way on 32-bit Athlon. I have Athlon-XP. Even with distcc to Core2Duo it takes about 10 days of compilation time to build all stuff, I'm not counting time to fix all failures here. Well, I have >3000 packages installed... > An upgrade will > take somewhere between a couple days and a couple weeks. > Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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