From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Feb 2 09:23:26 2010 Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:20:19 +0200 From: George Nakos X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <836240926.20100202162019@hol.gr> To: p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk CC: "mint Mailing-List" Subject: Re: [MiNT] Gentoo FreeMiNT In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.94.2/10350/Tue Feb 2 13:43:06 2010 on takeit02.mail.dc.hol.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: ggn@hol.gr Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id o12ENPgM020268 Hello p, Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 4:00:28 PM, you 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. Back up your drive before proceeding then? > 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. Again, back up before proceeding? > Maybe you guys have several systems and are prepared to wipe > one but what if you only have one Mint install ? Personally I have a few systems set up, but I have the following options: a) Back my current Falcon's drive up and then try Alan's distro b) Take one of my old 20gb drives, format it up and install it there, leaving my current system intact c) Wipe my mint partition and install there (all my data is on another partition anyway) I don't know what system are you using, but if you have a falcon, buying a cf to ide or sd->ide adapter and the appropriate 4gb card will set you back for about 10 eur at most. P.S. Out of interest, which e-mail client are you using? When you reply to threads on this list, my e-mail client (The Bat!) can't thread your replies properly (probably because it's missing references) -- Best regards, George mailto:ggn@hol.gr