On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:01:31 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 21 July 2011 10:01:10 j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote: > > A little advice please? I am about to build a new box going from > > athlon dual core to phenom six core. Including new sata drives and > > motherboard. I was going to clone all my partitions and the re > > emerged all packages with march native > > > Firstly would you reccommend cloning and if so what is best > > technology? > > > > Second is a complete reinstall a better option or safer? > > > are you using ACLs? > > if not a good old cp -auv is sufficient. > > But.. why clone the system? This is a good chance to get rid of cruft > and forgotten packages. A clean installation (and copied /etc) might > not be a bad choice. > Thanks Gentoo. A combination of a new install, rsyncing all personal data, distfiles, /etc has worked wonders. Its nice to see that it is quicker to install Gentoo and get it up and running pretty much as previously than installing another well known operating system which took hours to download updates and hours of searching the web for right drivers. And this is totally free. LONG LIVE GENTOO
