On Sunday 18 March 2018 05:02:19 E. Liddell wrote:
On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 17:13:52 -0700
William Morder <doctor_contendo(a)zoho.com> wrote:
I would be curious to know what are other
people's methods. I've heard
about some net installations already.
Well, my response was shock that anyone would actually have to do that much
work to reinstall the software on an existing system! I'd just issue
something like "emerge --emptytree --keep-going world", go to bed, and
expect 98% of everything to be resolved when I got back up in the morning.
A Gentoo machine is always easier to recover than to restart from scratch
(and yes, it's possible to switch out major parts of the infrastructure,
like openrc <=> systemd and udev <=> eudev, without hosing everything or
even having to reinstall any package that doesn't depend directly on the
changed one).
I kept my old system installation for twelve years (2005-2017), despite a
major hardware refresh about midway through that period, and *never* had to
start over from scratch. And the only reason I didn't just image the old
root partition onto a new drive when I set up my current machine over
Christmas was that I figured it was time to get rid of all the leftover
cruft from more than a decade of rolling updates.
E. Liddell
Ah, but you are an actual geek, and you like this stuff. And I did say that my
method was dirty. The only reason I use computers at all is because I must; I
build my own computers out of parts because I can't afford to buy anything;
and I try to stick with GNU/Linux so that I can be sure that I really own my
own computers.
I've only been running Linux since about 2006, and mostly Kubuntu. Only in
April of 2017 did I attempt Debian. Once I get a system more or less stable,
I almost never need to do a full reinstallation. But then, I have pretty much
taught myself, with the help of some Linux books, and researching the forums.
And I only know one person in the real world (not online) who can actually
offer guidance. Otherwise, most people think I am a computer freak, which I
am not.
If I ruled the world, we would all go back to horses and carts, or at least
bicycles. I still say that this computer nonsense is just a passing fad, and
sooner or later people will wake up.
In the meanwhile, this is what I have to do to keep my computer running. I
like what you say, and am always willing to bow before superior knowledge. If
I could learn how to use your method on a Debian system, that would be great.
If you can point me in the right direction, I am all ears.
Bill
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