advice for wipe and reinstall

[Terry Barnum]

Thanks Eric. I should've mentioned that I'm familiar with the Migration page. As far as I can tell its instructions are for an update of the OS with /opt/local still in place, not a reformatted, wiped and clean install.

What's the recommended way to reinstall previously installed ports (in 10.7) with all previous port configurations onto a reformatted hard drive running 10.8?

Thanks,
-Terry

On Mar 21, 2014, at 1:35 PM, Eric Gallager <egall at gwmail.gwu.edu> wrote:

> See the "Migration" page on the wiki: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Terry Barnum <terry at dop.com> wrote:
> I've got a MacPro3,1 that after updating from 10.6 to 10.7 has intermittently been having its builtin Gb network interface go deaf. Nothing short of a reboot can bring it back. I began suspecting hardware and added a SmallTree NIC with their driver thinking that would solve it, but after two days the machine went deaf again.
> 
> So now I'm thinking that a reformat and clean install of 10.8 and all macports might be the solution. This is an active mailserver with many packages installed with macports (postfix, dovecot, antispam, dspam, sieve, etc.) and I don't want to lose any of their configurations. I have nightly CCC and hourly Timemachine backups.
> 
> What's the recommended way to reinstall previously installed ports (in 10.7) with all previous configuration onto a fresh system running 10.8?
> 
> Thanks for any advice.
> 
> -Terry
> 
> Terry Barnum
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