On 04 May 2018, Stuart Henderson wrote: (snip) > I'd start with an install to a new main disk, with the other drives > unplugged for safety. Once it's installed and booted, connect the > softraid drives and you'll be able to mount them. > > To figure out what needs transferring from the 5.4 install, it may > help to use find(1) to look for files newer than the base OS install > files, or compare a file listing (including timestamps) with one from > a fresh 5.4 install (maybe some variant of "find / -newer /some/file -ls"). (snip)
Further, I'd add: take good notes about what you needed to transfer or otherwise adjust and why. Those notes may be enormously helpful for the future where you need to quickly provision another fresh system according to your needs. -- Mark
