Sabayon 5 Update

[pepe999]

I tried to upgrade SL 5 yesterday and now I'm downloading SL 4.2 Core to reinstall it. It was a completely disaster..
I know it's an experimental branch but I took a chance..
However, I can reformat entire hdd which I was lazy to do it earlier because Ubuntu doesn't work and I'd like to replace it by PCLOS 2009.2, Debian, openSUSE 11 or Mandriva2009 as a secondary distro..

[hatalar205]

When the experienced ones say, "not advised", it means that "don't do" gently. So, if you are a newbie like me, don't do.

[wolfden]

Well the RC2 is out to testers and will become the final version if no major issues found.

It should be safe to hop to 5. I know it's not going to be easy for those not as experienced tho, we are hoping to improve this in the future.

A wiki howto:
http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php? ... g_Branches
and make sure to look at viewtopic.php?f=86&t=16399 for examples

The biggest issue I see is people with their video, Your Kernel and Driver have to match and be set, check eselect opengl list and make sure it's set.

[pepe999]

When the experienced ones say, "not advised", it means that "don't do" gently. So, if you are a newbie like me, don't do.

I usually don't do it but I was impatient. I have no experience with updating via the package manager, I usually install a fresh new system because there problems with updating even when a distro is stable because of depencies etc..
However, branch 5 has been released so I hope my problem is solved, I'm downloading it at the moment and syncing Portage for 6 or 7 hours in SL 4.2 which I installed 2 days ago..

[pepe999]

I've installed SL5 today and I think it's not bad. At the beginning there are some minor issues but I can manage it...
I've found out that Firefox 3.5.3 can't install any add-ons. Installation is fine until "restart Firefox". Click on it and Firefox just shut down and doesn't start again. I have to start it manually but there are no any installed add-ons..