On 10/8/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My system has developed serious problems related to the emul libs. The > advice given as a reply to my bug has made the system impossible to > upgrade using emerge. It is possible the problem dates back to the > 2004.3->2005.0 upgrade, I don't know. > > Is there a way to build a "from scratch" 2005.1 system over the net > without having to download and boot from a CD?
Not that I know of... > Will it leave my user > directories alone? The install will not use partitions that you don't tell it to use. If your /home directory is a separate partition then it should be safe as you do not have to mount it. If the /home directory is part of some other partition then you should be careful. > The installation docs assume that you don't have a > runnig gentoo system and start with a boot CD. > Right, but you can modify this a bit by not creating new partitions for /home and jsut reusing what's there, again, if you made home a separate parrtition. If you have room then you might also create a new partition, if you have space, and then copy /home/USERS to it for safe keeping. Basically, do backups before you start with a new install. Good luck, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
