On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sebastian Günther a écrit: > >> If you want such functionality, use Debian or Ubuntu. > > Or just use the good C*FLAGS and kernel options. >
Nicolas is right, you can (at your own risk, of course) do a migration like this, so "DON'T" is not really the only option, and changing distros is NOT an option in most cases. Gentoo is perfectly capable of that. Change flags in make.conf for generic compatible ones, compile a new kernel (I used genkernel for the migration, and compiled a specific kernel for the new machine later), emerge -e world and transfer the system (I used rsync, and had to deal with some network issues), everything worked (after some fine tunning for the new hardware) for me. Sometimes the effort is worth, it was my case, YMMV. It takes a little while (for me, the migration itself took a Sunday afternoon, like 6 hours), but you can still use your system while emerge does its work, and while the new kernel compiles. Its less time than a normal install from the ground up (with the whole configuration process, X, Window Manager, etc). After the migration, change flags again, and let emerge do its magic, while you can keep working. PS: I kept my old system as a backup for a few weeks. PS2: I had an old Athlon XP 1.2GHz and migrated the whole system to a Core Duo 2.8GHz, as you may imagine, both machines were COMPLETELY different, but still I kept all my preferences, packages, files, all of it. An year before the migration, the Athlon XP was running a CHOST=i386 and I changed it to i686 with success. Gentoo is sometimes just magical. -- Daniel da Veiga
