Mark Constable posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Thu, 14 Apr 2005 23:02:02 +1000:
> Thank you for your excellently informative replies. They should be on a > wiki somewhere. Thanks. Unfortunately, I seem more stimulated by newsgroup posts (I get this list as a newgroup thru gmane.org) than the web, and sometimes find I've almost duplicated a 200 line post several weeks in a row, but that's still not enough to get me to go put it on the web somewhere. <shrug> Just the way I work, I guess. > 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. Well, that would certainly work. However, not a lot of people like the idea of having to regenerate their entire system again! That's /supposed/ to be one of the benefits of Gentoo, not having to do things like that. > I wouldn't mind a cruftless "new" system anyway after over a year with > ~amd64. ... OTOH, you put it that way, and given that the project seems easier to you than continuing to struggle, it appears to actually be a viable option in your case, and not an absolute last-case one either. So... by all means, that does sound like a plan! ... Here, unfortunately, I seem to have some bad memory, and while it has finally started coming down in price again so I'm actually looking at being able to replace it, until I do, the prospect of restarting from scratch looks /very/ bad indeed, because it's all I can do sometimes to keep up with existing updates, given that I pretty much have to babysit every emerge, and be prepared to reboot and restart where I left off, if it triggers the bad memory and I get a system freeze. Still, even sitting thru all the emerges from a stage-one, I'm glad I switched to Gentoo rather than saying on Mandrake, from whence I came, and *VERY* glad I switched to Linux rather than staying on MSWormOS, from which I came b4 that. A new life in the "free" world may have it's issues, but it's certainly better than saying in "the old country" would have been! ... I'm sort of waiting another week for the Opteron-X2 (dual core) announcements, to check out the specs and reconsider my options, /then/ I'll decide for sure whether I want to switch-out memory on this thing or go new barebones. I've lived with the problem for over a year, so another couple weeks to ensure I'm not locking myself in with no upgrade path, won't hurt. OTOH, restarting from stage-one with good hardware might be kinda fun! =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- [email protected] mailing list
