On 08/23/2018 10:27 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-08-22, Zoltán Kócsi <zol...@bendor.com.au> wrote: >> I have a Gentoo machine, which has not been updated for a while. Quite >> a long while, actually. > >> It seems that I'm kind of stuck. Wiping the disk and rebuilding the >> system from scratch is absolutely not an option, the existing (and >> running) system must be updated somehow. > > Doing a reinstall will probably be far less work and less disruption > for the machines user's. You don't have to "wipe the disk" to do a > re-install.
Yeah. I would suggest after the back up then you simply clone the disk and perform the re-install on another computer or in a VM so that you can fiddle with things and then just swap out the drives vs having down-time for your users potentially for days if something goes wrong on the actual server. It is what I do for situations like this and it works great.
