Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

["Daniel da Veiga" <danieldaveiga@gmail.com>]

On 7/18/07, Dale <dalek1967@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>  instead of two emerge --emptytree it would be faster to just nuke the
> installation....
>
>  I agree.  Just back up /etc, make a copy of your world file and any other
> config files you may need and start from scratch.  At least then you KNOW
> for sure where you started from and that something didn't get missed
> somewhere.
>
>  Oh, don't forget /home either.
>

I was just going to reply about that when you remind me I can keep the
world file, and all the portage configs...

Maybe I'll start from scratch then, copy the configs back and start an
"emerge -uDN world" to get it all back, I guess this will save me some
time, as I have all the tarballs from this two years at a network
storage  using NTFS.

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Daniel da Veiga
Computer Operator - RS - Brazil
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