On Tuesday 04 Aug 2015 18:20:40 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-08-04, Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > That's right, May 2011, my first and only Gentoo installation, 32 bit on > > an old Athlon, which means no sse2, and kernel 2.6.37. It coexists in > > multiboot on one HD with 12 installations of Fedora and openSUSE. I'd > > like to upgrade it rather than installing fresh, > > Can we ask why? > > > if it's doable. > > It probably is (for some degnerate value of "doable"). > > My gut feeling is that a fresh install is going to be a _lot_ easier > and faster. A fresh install will take a couple hours. An upgrade will > take somewhere between a couple days and a couple weeks.
+1 Back up your /var/lib/portage/world and /etc, then use a LiveCD to follow the Gentoo handbook. After you download and untar a stage 3 filesystem you can copy back your /var/lib/portage/world, build a new kernel and emerge -uaDv world You can use your old config files in your /etc back up to make any quick edits necessary on your new installation. -- Regards, Mick
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