Is there any particular reason that after I get 2.6 working I could not 
just copy over the .config and go from? Xconfig is the same the world 
around right? At this point I have not been able to use anything other 
than the xconfig from knoppix (and I tried, belive you me, I tried), so 
I would need to keep that.

I meant the fstab instead of the lilo.config, so that I not have to go 
through the pain of figuring out how to get at my data partion (a fat32 
partition that I keep the good stuff in).

My understanding is that there is not dependcy hell with gentoo, *ever*. 
That is how things work, right?

Bryce C wrote:

> This is a tricky thing to do. I've done it about three times and never
> lost whatever I've needed because I backed up everything except:
> /bin
> /boot
> /dev
> /lib
> /opt
> /usr
> /var
> because those will all be replaced with newer, greater stuff. Also, note
> I don't "copy over" anything. This way, I can merge the backups and
> their configuration with files for the newest version. Not to mention,
> having all the old, useless configs will be a pain when you're looking
> to configure something and there's the gentoo copy and the previous copy
> and you don't know which is which.
> I don't want my AIM on the internet though (googled archives) so I'll IM
> you with it. I'll be more than happy to help convert you to the "right"
> side (I'm biased, ok?) in the afternoons and weekends, though you may
> have some competition soon with classes starting back up and their
> homework.
> 
> On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 22:02, Rob Wultsch wrote:
> 
>>I am thinkink hard about trying gentoo out and think that if I used my 
>>current /boot would save a bunch of time... (as well as my lilo.config 
>>anf XFree86-config4 or whatever it is)
>>
>>Is there anything outside of /boot that I would need to copy over? 
>>Everything is in there right?
>>
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