Hi folks, Please bear with me, even if this seems a little newbie-sh.
I have a perfectly running Gentoo AMD64 system, with XGL and all. Now I've figured that I need to change my CFLAGS. It's some stupidity on my part, please don't ask. So I guess I'll need to rebuild my entire system. Anyway, I have about 11GB free on the hard disk. I am thinking about building binaries of all the installed packages on the system, keep them burnt on a DVD. I'll back up my /etc. All my data partitions and /home are on different partitions, so I don't see any need to back them up. Also, I'll keep the 2006.0 minimal install CD handy. It does support LVM right? What do I do with the stage tarballs? How can I make a snapshot of this working system as a fallback? I remember something about a Stage 4 in the forums a while ago.. I installed this system well over a year ago with a Stage 1 tarball. Should I keep Stage 3 handy? Is there anything else I should be worried about? Have I forgotten something in case something goes wrong and I have to reinstall the entire thing... Another thing, I'll need to make an exact copy of this system, once rebuilt, on a friend's laptop, albeit with a different partition setup. My system has LVM setup, the laptop won't have that. What all needs to be changed? Sorry to ask so many question, I'm just worried about messing up the fine system.. :/ Thanks and regards, Mrugesh
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