Thinking of LTS onto a current Gentoo box
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Being tired of spending days recompiling rather than working, I'm ready to
> turn my main machine from Gentoo into Ubuntu LTS.
> The problem is that I've been seeing horror stories about a fresh install
> when there are raid drives, and it's a partition on a
> hardware raid mirror set that I want to install into -- it's already labeled
> 'ubuntu' and there's plenty of space.
>
> In the light of all the stories, is this likely to work at all?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/parted/+bug/191119
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-md/+bug/542210
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/568183
Thanks.* That helps somewhat.* There are enough differences between what is described and my actual setup to
make it worth trying.* I have some of the new-fangled terrabyte SATA drives, so I've got room to back up a complete image
of everything. (Not contents or partitions -- image the whole drive).
*
But I've gotta get out of Gentoo one way or another...
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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