I'll let others deal with your other questions, because they require some thought and I am not sure if I remember enough of the re-install process to deal with it. But, a few comments that I hope may be helpful:
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 04:41:15PM -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > (4) After editing the make.conf file, verifying that it is correct for a 64 > bit system, I then can run the command > emerge -e world, and everything should compile correctly? backup /var/lib/portage/world before re-installing. This file contains all of the packages in your world. I am not sure if the stage3 tar ball will overwrite /var/lib/portage, so better be safe than sorry. After your re-install you can just cp the world file back and issue emerge -e world. On older portage, sometimes one runs into weird circular dependency problems. The newer portage versions maybe able to resolve it on its own, but I have not tested it to see. > (5) With this method, I will not lose any other key settings such as video, > kde etc. > Is this correct? Suggestion: backup /etc and /root before re-install. Ditto /home if it is not on a separate partition (and if so, why is it not on a separate partition? Data should be kept separate from system). Everything else you can recover from the re-install. Hum, you should also backup /usr/src/linux/.config, if you don't have a backup already sitting in /boot. That will save you some time building your new kernel. HTH, -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu 408 Fine Hall, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.
