On Thursday 14 April 2005 21:53, Duncan wrote: > > Forgive my serious level of cluelessness but what practical benefit is > > that compared to running the occasional 32bit app via the emul libs ? > > > > I'm trying to weigh up whether I should burn another week in a, so far, > > fruitless exercise of upgrading. > > Well, in all honesty, not a lot. The primary benefit of 2005.0 is in > preparation for 2005.1, which will be better in this regard (probably > ~amd64 level, as I put it in my other response, which see for the sordid > details <g>). > ...
Thank you for your excellently informative replies. They should be on a wiki somewhere. How about this for a strategy... wait till 2005.1 is just about ready then basically swap out everything outside of /home and some /etc/ configs and replace it all in one go from a fresh 2005.1 based liveCD ? As opposed to even trying to incrementally upgrade at all. . migrate anything non-system and personal to /home/* . backup everything to somewhere else, of course . script a much smaller and precise backup of kernel/grub and customized configs to /home/keepsafe/full/path/file . boot to 2005.1 based liveCD and mount main HDD to /mnt . rsync the liveCD 2005.1 system to /mnt . rsync -a /mnt/home/keepsafe/ /mnt ... and reboot I wouldn't mind a cruftless "new" system anyway after over a year with ~amd64. --markc -- [email protected] mailing list
