Going to reinstall Gentoo, what should I back up?

Dominii · n00b Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 20

I have a stage 3 install now, and I have some problems, so I'm going to reinstall as stage 1 for the experience and clean setup. Planning to backup my /etc folder and generic files I need from ~/, anything else I could take with me? Thanks.

krusty_ar · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 12:49 pm Post subject:

You could use /usr/portage/distfiles to save some download times if your actual system is updated.
Also I don't know where apache keeps it's files in Gentoo but a look at /var for some mail/database/website should avoid later sadness :lol:

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puggy · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 12:55 pm Post subject:

By all means backup your /etc directory but do not be tempted to copy these files straight back in as things do change. Just use them as a reference for setting the new config files.

You relise that doing a stage1 reinstall isn't necessary, you can just recompile your entire machine with an

Dominii · n00b Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 20

Doing a stage 1 because when I did my first gentoo install, I had a gentoo dev and another gentoo user with me to pretty much do everything. Now I want to do it myself to make sure I can

paranode · l33t Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 679 Location: Texas

Better keep that working kernel config. That can save some time.
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Spider · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 5:25 pm Post subject: try this perhaps?

here, might be some pointers ..
http://dev.gentoo.org/~spider/migration-guide.html
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