Grant Edwards composed on 2015-08-04 17:20 (UTC): > Felix Miata 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? Because, assuming it's feasible, I can? :-) 1-I just find upgrade processes more enjoyable than inital installations and their follow-up tedium getting from defaults back to the way I like things to work. 2-From one installation to the next, I typically forget installation choices that in hindsight I would not have made. >> 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 For some "degenerate" value of easier. :-) > and faster. A fresh install will take a couple hours. An upgrade will > take somewhere between a couple days and a couple weeks. Seriously, more than a day? Now that I've seen several thread responses subsequent to this one, I'm leaning towared just doing a fresh installation, but I'm curious about what would happen by trying, and how long it really would take. Skipping or after attemping upgrade, I'd chroot from an existing, probably openSUSE rather than Fedora, because I have Tumbleweed all the way back to 11.2 to choose from. Would there be any particular advantage to picking a particular one to use, with/without systemd, or a kernel version close, or newer, or older, than that which will be emerged? I like that eselect list currently offers a kde sans systemd sans plasma option. Ultimately what I'd like to do is get Gentoo on at least one of my much faster systems, but only after enough experience with it to have a respectable shot at putting Trinity on it instead of any of the more popular DEs. This machine is a guinea pig for familiarization purposes. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
