Thinking of LTS onto a current Gentoo box

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at 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...

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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