advice for wipe and reinstall

Eric Gallager egall at gwmail.gwu.edu
Fri Mar 21 13:35:09 PDT 2014


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
> digital OutPost
> http://www.dop.com
>
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