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, if it's doable. My initial steps have been:
1-scan through:
a: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Upgrading_Gentoo
b: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Working/Portage
2-clone the existing partition to a larger one to be the upgrade target
3-boot the target
4-note that there exists no /etc/portage/
5-# emerge --sync
which warned I need to emerge portage before doing anything else
6-# emerge portage
This produced a longish warning:
!!! /etc/make.profile is not a symlink and will probably prevent most merges.
!!! It should point into a profile within /usr/portage/profiles/
!!! (You can safely ignore this message when syncing. It's harmless.)
!!! If you have just changed your profile configuration, you should revert
!!! backto the previous configuration. Due to your current profile being
!!! invalid, allowed actions are limited to --help, --info, --sync, and
!!! --version.
So, /etc/make.profile exists, but it's a symlink to a non-existant
../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop. Is all I need to do
to be able to proceed to change the symlink to point to ...x86/13.0/des...?
Any suggestions or words of wisdom?
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