[gentoo-user] System for PIII now lives in K7; any way to rebuild without full reinstall?

[Dan Farrell]

Howdy folks.  Today I have a fun exercise but am short on ideas.  Any
suggestions?  

I have an old hard drive from my router, a Pentium III.  Now i've gone
and put that hard drive in an Athlon-based machine, which doesn't
support the P-III instruction set completely.  

The computer boots and the kernel runs just fine, but many of the
programs do not work.  The biggest thorn in my side is emerge not
working; therefore, I can't fix the problem with a simle empty-tree
emerge.  

I am considering doing a full reinstall.  But, I don't want to be
bothered.  

What do you all think of the idea of extracting a stage3 onto an
existing installation?  Is there any way this could yield a set of
utilities (namely python or emerge, whichever isn't working now) enough
so that I could successfully issue an 'emerge -e world' ?

Thanks for your time and suggestions,
	Dan Farrell 
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