From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Feb 2 10:39:10 2010 Message-ID: <4B68460F.7030709@atari-source.org> Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:34:39 -0500 From: Mark Duckworth User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] Gentoo FreeMiNT References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mduckworth@atari-source.org Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: On 2/2/10 9:00 AM, p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk wrote: >> ---- Original Message ---- >> From: Peter Persson >> To: "mint Mailing-List" >> >> >>> I don't think there will be many people wiping their hard disc >>> to try out gentoo. >>> >> I would for sure. >> >> -- PeP >> > I won't be. > > Updating my basic Mint install to have an ext2 drive was scary > enough. Then later installing Easymint on top was worse. I even > tried to reduce the risk by installing it on a second drive > but Easymint didn't quite cope with that and put some stuff on > the first drive. It took several days to get it working again > and a week or two to get it sorted half decently. > > Maybe you guys have several systems and are prepared to wipe > one but what if you only have one Mint install ? > > Peter > > > > Well it's just a file tree. You can easily go to the root of your ext2 fs, do mkdir old then do mv * old, then tar zxvf the tarball. Then if you don't like it just remove all the new dirs and put the old stuff back. All very easy and relatively risk free. ' 'Thanks, Mark