Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall

2022-06-19 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I suggest either taking a full dd|bzip2 style backup of the hardisk to removable media for the simplest reinstall. Compliment with borgbackup or dervish for space efficient backups to capture more recent changes. Reinstall is the reverse .. lay down the dd image update from the backups with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall

2022-06-19 Thread Francisco Ares
Em dom., 19 de jun. de 2022 às 14:33, Michael escreveu: > > On Sunday, 19 June 2022 18:22:34 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2022-06-19, Francisco Ares wrote: > > > Just for the sake of preventing a future failure, besides personal > > > files (minimum and obvious) the "world" file and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall

2022-06-19 Thread Francisco Ares
Em dom., 19 de jun. de 2022 às 14:22, Grant Edwards escreveu: > > On 2022-06-19, Francisco Ares wrote: > > > Just for the sake of preventing a future failure, besides personal > > files (minimum and obvious) the "world" file and the binary packages, > > built along with the package installation,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall

2022-06-19 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 19 June 2022 18:22:34 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2022-06-19, Francisco Ares wrote: > > Just for the sake of preventing a future failure, besides personal > > files (minimum and obvious) the "world" file and the binary packages, > > built along with the package installation, what

[gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall

2022-06-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2022-06-19, Francisco Ares wrote: > Just for the sake of preventing a future failure, besides personal > files (minimum and obvious) the "world" file and the binary packages, > built along with the package installation, what else should I backup > so that I would be able to quickly restore

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall + switch to KDE

2012-09-20 Thread Daniel Wagener
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:44:33 -0500 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:53:41 -0400 Andrey Moshbear andrey@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Nikos

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall + switch to KDE

2012-09-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:44:13 +0200 Daniel Wagener st...@gmx.net wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:44:33 -0500 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:53:41 -0400 Andrey Moshbear

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall + switch to KDE

2012-09-20 Thread William Kenworthy
On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 18:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:44:13 +0200 Daniel Wagener st...@gmx.net wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:44:33 -0500 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall + switch to KDE

2012-09-11 Thread Samuraiii
On 2012-09-10 20:28, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/09/12 19:53, Andrey Moshbear wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/09/12 19:12, Samuraiii wrote: Hello, because I broke me PC and I need to reinstall it I'm going ask what should I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall + switch to KDE

2012-09-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:27:35 +0200, Samuraiii wrote: The whole problem lies in that the gcc in configure phase is looking for */usr/local/include* and not for /usr/include... I'm not able to find where and what has changed... env | grep usr/local or the brute force approach grep -r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall + switch to KDE

2012-09-11 Thread Samuraiii
On 2012-09-11 11:42, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:27:35 +0200, Samuraiii wrote: The whole problem lies in that the gcc in configure phase is looking for */usr/local/include* and not for /usr/include... I'm not able to find where and what has changed... env | grep usr/local

[gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall + switch to KDE

2012-09-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/09/12 19:12, Samuraiii wrote: Hello, because I broke me PC and I need to reinstall it I'm going ask what should I preserve to make install faster: 1. I presume that /home can be left intact. 2. I plan to backup /etc and after reinstall I'm going to diff /etc.old with /etc to see what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall + switch to KDE

2012-09-10 Thread Andrey Moshbear
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/09/12 19:12, Samuraiii wrote: Hello, because I broke me PC and I need to reinstall it I'm going ask what should I preserve to make install faster: So what *is* broken? The hardware? If you have a new PC, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall + switch to KDE

2012-09-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 10. September 2012, 12:53:41 schrieb Andrey Moshbear: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/09/12 19:12, Samuraiii wrote: Hello, because I broke me PC and I need to reinstall it I'm going ask what should I preserve to make install

[gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall + switch to KDE

2012-09-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/09/12 19:53, Andrey Moshbear wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/09/12 19:12, Samuraiii wrote: Hello, because I broke me PC and I need to reinstall it I'm going ask what should I preserve to make install faster: So what *is* broken?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall + switch to KDE

2012-09-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:53:41 -0400 Andrey Moshbear andrey@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/09/12 19:12, Samuraiii wrote: Hello, because I broke me PC and I need to reinstall it I'm going ask what should I preserve

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall + switch to KDE

2012-09-10 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:53:41 -0400 Andrey Moshbear andrey@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/09/12 19:12, Samuraiii wrote: Hello, because I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall + switch to KDE

2012-09-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 09:36:25PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:53:41 -0400 Andrey Moshbear andrey@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/09/12 19:12, Samuraiii wrote: Hello, because I broke