On Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:29:30 +0100 Michael <confabul...@kintzios.com> wrote:
> With a year old system you should question if reinstalling your > system after a back up of configuration and data files would be a > smarter approach. If you *must* upgrade your current installation > for learning or as an experiment, then this is something which has > been done before. I know. I'm a happy Gentoo user for more than 20 years now. However, this is the master installation for a diskless setup providing the baseline for more than a dozen servers. Of course, I can still reinstall but this would be more work than just one machine + a few config files. As one year is not too terribly old (imho) and this looked like something that might be easily solved, I decided to ask for advice here first. > Personally, I'd back up /home /etc and world file, plus any databases > or websites if stored under /var/, then untar the latest stage 3 > tarball and update @system and @world. Just extracting stage3 over everything that is already there? > Overall it should be a *much* > faster approach to allow you to bring your installation up to date. Well, yeah, your mileage may vary. cu Gerrit
