From: "Taiidan@gmx.com" <Taiidan@gmx.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update circle
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 20:01:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <79e2724e-a878-f0ad-528e-3a8e81a8dfd3@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <plmg85$i5l$1@blaine.gmane.org>
On 08/23/2018 10:27 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2018-08-22, Zoltán Kócsi <zoltan@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.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-31 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-22 8:24 [gentoo-user] Update circle Zoltán Kócsi
2018-08-22 8:54 ` Corentin “Nado” Pazdera
2018-08-22 9:15 ` Zoltán Kócsi
2018-08-22 9:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-08-22 9:42 ` Zoltán Kócsi
2018-08-22 10:11 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-08-22 10:25 ` Arve Barsnes
2018-08-22 9:40 ` Corentin “Nado” Pazdera
2018-08-22 9:18 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-08-22 14:17 ` [gentoo-user] " Nuno Silva
2018-08-23 10:18 ` Zoltán Kócsi
2018-08-23 10:25 ` Adam Carter
2018-09-01 8:35 ` Wol's lists
2018-09-01 9:39 ` Peter Humphrey
2018-09-01 10:35 ` Wols Lists
2018-09-01 13:24 ` Peter Humphrey
2018-08-23 14:27 ` Grant Edwards
2018-08-31 0:01 ` Taiidan [this message]
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