[gentoo-user] upgrading from 2005 S1 to 2008.0?
Is it possible to upgrade an existing 2005 S1 install to 2008.0? I gave it a quick try and ran into multiple issues. Before I expend hrs trying to make it work, does anyone know if it's an exercise in futility or not? Thx -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 http://doug.hunley.homeip.net If I were to stop saving his life, it would simple things up so much.
Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from 2005 S1 to 2008.0?
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Douglas J Hunley d...@hunley.homeip.net wrote: Is it possible to upgrade an existing 2005 S1 install to 2008.0? I gave it a quick try and ran into multiple issues. Before I expend hrs trying to make it work, does anyone know if it's an exercise in futility or not? Thx It may be possible by unpacking one of the stage tarballs from the newer profile and using that to jump-start the rest of the process... i've never done it so I am only guessing. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml The upgrading guide mentions doing a voodoo dance so that may not be a good sign. :)
Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from 2005 S1 to 2008.0?
On Tuesday 10 March 2009 16:40:32 Douglas J Hunley wrote: Is it possible to upgrade an existing 2005 S1 install to 2008.0? I gave it a quick try and ran into multiple issues. Before I expend hrs trying to make it work, does anyone know if it's an exercise in futility or not? Thx You have not given sufficient information for even a half-way decent answer. So I will thumb suck: Is this an install from 2005 that has not been updated since? If so, forget it, reinstall. Is this an install from 2205 that has been updated regularly? If so, what's the problem? Is this some arb install from some arb point in time that is running a 2005 profile? If so, change the profile and emerge world. Some other interpretation that has never crossed my bow? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from 2005 S1 to 2008.0?
Douglas J Hunley wrote: Is it possible to upgrade an existing 2005 S1 install to 2008.0? I gave it a quick try and ran into multiple issues. Before I expend hrs trying to make it work, does anyone know if it's an exercise in futility or not? Thx If it were me, I would save the world file, /rtc and /home and just reinstall. There are several updates that would be pretty extensive and tedious to say it lightly. I think in the long run, a reinstall would be much faster and easier. Giving a little more thought, maybe you should not even save much of /etc either. The make.conf file may be OK but I suspect there are huge changes to everything else too. My $0.02 worth. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: upgrading from 2005 S1 to 2008.0?
On Tuesday 10 March 2009 10:51:15 Alan McKinnon wrote: Is it possible to upgrade an existing 2005 S1 install to 2008.0? I gave it a quick try and ran into multiple issues. Before I expend hrs trying to make it work, does anyone know if it's an exercise in futility or not? Thx You have not given sufficient information for even a half-way decent answer. So I will thumb suck: Is this an install from 2005 that has not been updated since? If so, forget it, reinstall. Is this an install from 2205 that has been updated regularly? If so, what's the problem? Is this some arb install from some arb point in time that is running a 2005 profile? If so, change the profile and emerge world. Some other interpretation that has never crossed my bow? It's the first. The box was installed with 2005 S1 and never subsequently touched and now I've inherited it. Sorry for not specifying that. -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 http://doug.hunley.homeip.net Buffy, when I said you could slay vampires and have a social life, I didn't mean at the same time.
[gentoo-user] Re: upgrading from 2005 S1 to 2008.0?
On 2009-03-10, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Douglas J Hunley wrote: Is it possible to upgrade an existing 2005 S1 install to 2008.0? I gave it a quick try and ran into multiple issues. Before I expend hrs trying to make it work, does anyone know if it's an exercise in futility or not? Thx If it were me, I would save the world file, /rtc and /home and just reinstall. There are several updates that would be pretty extensive and tedious to say it lightly. I think in the long run, a reinstall would be much faster and easier. Giving a little more thought, maybe you should not even save much of /etc either. The make.conf file may be OK but I suspect there are huge changes to everything else too. Save the old /etc somewhere. You might not be able to use most of the files as is, but there are a lot of little pieces of information in them that you'll need. Cutting/pasting them into the new install is way easier than figuring everything out again from scratch. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Edwin Meese made me at wear CORDOVANS!! visi.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrading from 2005 S1 to 2008.0?
Grant Edwards ha scritto: On 2009-03-10, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Douglas J Hunley wrote: Is it possible to upgrade an existing 2005 S1 install to 2008.0? I gave it a quick try and ran into multiple issues. Before I expend hrs trying to make it work, does anyone know if it's an exercise in futility or not? Thx If it were me, I would save the world file, /rtc and /home and just reinstall. There are several updates that would be pretty extensive and tedious to say it lightly. I think in the long run, a reinstall would be much faster and easier. Giving a little more thought, maybe you should not even save much of /etc either. The make.conf file may be OK but I suspect there are huge changes to everything else too. Save the old /etc somewhere. You might not be able to use most of the files as is, but there are a lot of little pieces of information in them that you'll need. Cutting/pasting them into the new install is way easier than figuring everything out again from scratch. I would also save the kernel config, for the very same reasons (It won't work by itself, but it will be useful nonetheless). m.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrading from 2005 S1 to 2008.0?
On Tuesday 10 March 2009 17:34:31 Douglas J Hunley wrote: On Tuesday 10 March 2009 10:51:15 Alan McKinnon wrote: Is it possible to upgrade an existing 2005 S1 install to 2008.0? I gave it a quick try and ran into multiple issues. Before I expend hrs trying to make it work, does anyone know if it's an exercise in futility or not? Thx You have not given sufficient information for even a half-way decent answer. So I will thumb suck: Is this an install from 2005 that has not been updated since? If so, forget it, reinstall. Is this an install from 2205 that has been updated regularly? If so, what's the problem? Is this some arb install from some arb point in time that is running a 2005 profile? If so, change the profile and emerge world. Some other interpretation that has never crossed my bow? It's the first. The box was installed with 2005 S1 and never subsequently touched and now I've inherited it. Sorry for not specifying that. No problem. I think it was Dale that already told you what to do: reinstall. It's far easier, and you really don't want to go through the pain of the modular X upgrade, the expat upgrade, KDE monolithic to meta ebuilds and the changes to PAM (just to name a few). Besides, I don't think anyone here remembers anymore how to get through all that :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] installation / grub boot problem
Hi, I tried to install gentoo on my AMD 64 dual core machine. It has four 500 GB HDs. I followed the instruction on http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml. I replaced /dev/md4 with raid5 instead of raid0. Here is the list of each HD's partitiion: /dev/sda: partition #, boot startend type 1 *118 fd 2 19 361 fd 3362 end fd /dev/sdb partition #, boot startend type 1 1361 82 2 362 endfd /dev/sdc is the same to /dev/sda, and /dev/sdd = /dev/sdb I created /dev/md1, /dev/md3 and /dev/md4: mknod /dev/md1 b 9 1 mknod /dev/md3 b 9 3 mknod /dev/md4 b 9 4 and then form raid: mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdc1 mdadm --create /dev/md3 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdc2 mdadm --create /dev/md4 --level=5 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdc3 /dev/sdd2 /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdd1 forms the swap space mount: mount /dev/md3 /mnt/gentoo mount /dev/md1 /mnt/gentto/boot /dev/md4 is for lvm2 and /usr, /home, /opt and other common unix dir are created there after chroot and emerge, I issued emerge grub and modified /boot/grub/grub.conf default 0 timeout 10 title gentoo root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/md3 and issue grub grub root (hd0,0) grub setup (hd0) grub root (hd2,0) . grub setup (hd2) . grub quit When I reboot, the kernel issued a panic msg: it says can't read /dev/md/3 or (hd2,0) is invalid device. Any idea what went wrong? Thanks in advance for any suggestion. --HH
[gentoo-user] fax test
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Re: [gentoo-user] installation / grub boot problem
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:09:13 -0400, Heping He wrote: When I reboot, the kernel issued a panic msg: it says can't read /dev/md/3 or (hd2,0) is invalid device. Did you build all the LVM and device mapper stuff into the kernel, not as modules? -- Neil Bothwick The mechanic said I had blown a seal. I said, `Just fix the damn thing and leave my private life out of it, OK?' signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] fax test
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:15:23 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: Whoops, sorry about that, please ignore. No idea how it ended up here when I distinctly remember pasting in the correct address. -- Neil Bothwick At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Introduction to Gentoo
I've been using gentoo for years now, at the beginning, dual bot with Windows XP, and now, pure Gentoo only, and I am proud of it (can't live without my Gentoo distribution :) ) Googling arround the internet, I found an interesting link with some info about Gentoo (in english) that could be usefull to many users, specially new ones by introducing them in why Gentoo is different than others, and what can one do with gentoo (what are the USE variables, distcc, etc..) I post here the link and propose it to be linked in main gentoo.org website too, since it could help a bit new users, and promote gentoo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfT9zMo0WHw David.
Re: [gentoo-user] Introduction to Gentoo
David wrote: I've been using gentoo for years now, at the beginning, dual bot with Windows XP, and now, pure Gentoo only, and I am proud of it (can't live without my Gentoo distribution :) ) Googling arround the internet, I found an interesting link with some info about Gentoo (in english) that could be usefull to many users, specially new ones by introducing them in why Gentoo is different than others, and what can one do with gentoo (what are the USE variables, distcc, etc..) I post here the link and propose it to be linked in main gentoo.org website too, since it could help a bit new users, and promote gentoo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfT9zMo0WHw David. I went to the link and it said the video was no longer available. Does it work for anyone else? Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Introduction to Gentoo
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I went to the link and it said the video was no longer available. Does it work for anyone else? Dale :-) :-) Works for me.
