On 1/21/2012 01:56 PM, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > If its not being used and outage is not a problem, I would recommend > reinstalling. I'm against doying it, but 2 years is a lot, if you have > any servers (MySQL, PHP) it would be an issue, you'll have MAJOR > changes to X, OpenRC and I'm not even talking about the kernel, udev, > etc. > > I would back it up and reinstall, guess it would take less time and be > way smoother. > > Just my 2 cents...
I agree. I once tried something similar and after a couple of weeks of virtually endless frustration, I decided to do a fresh install of the latest version of Gentoo. I wholeheartedly agree that it would take far less time and be far smoother. To the OP: If you don't have a good way of backing up your important data, just Google "RIPLinuX" (not case sensitive). Actually I'll just give you the link to the site: http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ Kent Robotti is the creator and maintainer of "Rescue is Possible Linux". He has several versions, and that all contain DAR, and now also contain 32 and 64 bit versions of the kernel. If you can boot this system you are trying to update into Riplinux, then you can back up everything with DAR and reinstall without the worry of losing anything. Chris
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