On 2015-04-10, Philip Webb <[email protected]> wrote:
> 150410 Mick wrote:
>>> On 10/04/2015 19:29, [email protected] wrote:
>>>> My Gentoo system is kinda old ... not in the sense of not being updated
>>> regularly, but in the sense of "used for a (too?) long time"
>> I still have a box running the same Gentoo installation since 2005.
>> I had another which died due to hardware failure
>> with its original 2003 installation.
>
> Same here : I've never re-installed Gentoo in the same machine,
I've been using Gentoo on a handfull of machines for something like 13
years now, and have only re-installed a handfull of times in a few
differnt situations:
1) Though I have done many motherboard replacements without
reinstalling, on one occasion after a hardware failure the new
motherboard and drive arrangement was different enough that I
decided to reinstall. I'm pretty sure I could have used a livecd
or rescuecd to get the old installation tweaked and running on the
new hardware, but a reinstall seemed simpler.
2) RAM or root hard drive failure corrupted caused system crashes.
After the underlying hardware problem was fixed, I didn't trust
the contents of the root fs.
3) Switching from 32-bit install to 64 install. That's happened a
few times, and I don't think there's a practical alternative to
reinstalling.
> but updated weekly on the everyday system & less often on the others ;
> ANB2 (2003) still opens up, but won't talk to today's mice,
> ANB3 (2007) has a graphics-card problem, so can't boot intelligibly,
> ANB4 (2012 : this one) has no software problems,
> Horace (EEE-PC 2009) was recently updated successfully after 2 yr .
>
> Short advice : you're probably wasting your time (smile).
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