If you keep up to date with 1.4, it is most likely *more* up to date
than the 2004.0.  

In effect gentoo is an install once and reconfigure and update on the
fly as necessary, and you are always up to date as long as you keep
emerging on a regular basis.  Look at 2004.n as a snapshot for a basic
installation.  My oldest system has moved from a gentoo-1.1b (I think)
with gcc2.95 as a gnome desktop to gcc3.2.3 as a gateway/web/mail server
with the latest x86, all without going offline more than briefly by just
unmerging/emerging.

Wipe your system to test the install by all means, but at the end of the
day, you are unlikely to get anything new once the system is in the user
ready state.

BillK

On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 20:03, s wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 December 2003 05:05 am, TriKster Abacus wrote:

> I just installed gentoo 1.4 about 5 or 6 weeks ago.  I downloaded 
> 2004 installer but not sure if I want my computer to be down for 5 
> days while I install it or not, so soon after just getting 1.4 on 
> here.



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