From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NP4xu-0006MJ-Nl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:04:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 612E4E0960 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:04:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmmtao102.cox.net (eastrmmtao102.cox.net [68.230.240.8]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7344E0741 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:58:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao102.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.00.01.00 201-2244-105-20090324) with ESMTP id <20091228015833.TZRH13474.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:58:33 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([68.226.67.252]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id NRyZ1d0055Sa0uU02RyZZD; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:58:33 -0500 X-VR-Score: 0.00 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=463f1N2YpqHLOamhbp4wF7Njg/30QkdnTZ27hYvsP6Y= c=1 sm=1 a=WGFgip1o1jsA:10 a=w8vW1BtY9Kn2S3BlLC7G9Q==:17 a=0DYV-k_Cz52GtCLXJikA:9 a=VTDlTFCT35ImjAZ9FFYA:7 a=p81wFO0PG4HsFpncH0sWov8HesEA:4 a=w8vW1BtY9Kn2S3BlLC7G9Q==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Message-ID: <4B3810C8.2010906@cox.net> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:58:32 -0500 From: Marcus Wanner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Mothballing a ~arch gentoo system? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ab90f32f-4f1a-460b-b0f9-211ca79ea290 X-Archives-Hash: 703e9eeaeb9c53748b7c29edca3565e1 When an old (circa 2001) desktop came out of retirement a few months ago, I shuffled across Linuxes trying to find something that worked well, and finally hit on gentoo. I eventually switched to ~x86 because I was tired of using versions of apps from 6 months ago... Too make a long story short, I have a new computer now and that one is going back into retirement. I may want to use it more in future and would like to know how I would go about "mothballing" it so that if it ever needs to be used again, bringing it up to date will be as smooth and painless as possible. If I need to resurrect it, it will probably be at least a year from now. What would you recommend? Marcus