From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade query
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:01:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1793114.Av8WtvjpGF@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <425067986-1311242498-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-798183566-@b11.c20.bise7.blackberry>
On Thursday 21 July 2011 10:01:10 jdm@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote:
> A little advice please? I am about to build a new box going from athlon dual
> core to phenom six core. Including new sata drives and motherboard. I was
> going to clone all my partitions and the re emerged all packages with march
> native
> Firstly would you reccommend cloning and if so what is best technology?
>
> Second is a complete reinstall a better option or safer?
are you using ACLs?
if not a good old cp -auv is sufficient.
But.. why clone the system? This is a good chance to get rid of cruft and
forgotten packages. A clean installation (and copied /etc) might not be a bad
choice.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-21 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-21 10:01 [gentoo-user] Upgrade query jdm
2011-07-21 10:18 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-21 11:10 ` jdm
2011-07-21 11:42 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-21 10:20 ` Florian Philipp
2011-07-21 13:11 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-07-21 11:20 ` Alex Schuster
2011-07-21 18:01 ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2011-07-23 23:21 ` john
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