James wrote: > Felix Miata <mrmazda <at> earthlink.net> writes: > > >> 1-I just find upgrade processes more enjoyable than inital installations and >> their follow-up tedium getting from defaults back to the way I like things >> to work. > >> Now that I've seen several thread responses subsequent to this one, I'm >> leaning towared just doing a fresh installation, but I'm curious about what >> would happen by trying, and how long it really would take. > Interesting choice:: how do you like your choices, Felix? > > > To the wider list of gentoo hacks:: > > Still think we do not need an easier installation semantic? If he decides to > 'upgrade' there will be tons of man-hours spent on this effort. If we had a > mostly unattended basic installation semantic (proceedure/install) I bet he > (Felix) would choose that pathway. Felix, care to comment? > > > If we (gentoo) had a simple installation semantic, this sort of problem > would most likely disappear; so the wider community could delve into other > technical support issues...... YMMV. > > > James >
For me, it wouldn't matter if Gentoo had a installer or not. It still would be faster to do a fresh install even without a installer. So, it doesn't matter really. Most of the install time is waiting on a compile, especially on a older and slower machine. Dale :-) :-)
