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Neil Bothwick schrieb: |
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> On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:38:36 -0400, David Relson wrote: |
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>> I recall installing Gentoo as being a P.I.T.A, hence take no pleasure |
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>> in the idea of re-installing. I was hoping for something relatively |
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>> simple, like |
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>> changing CHOST and emerging world |
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>> unpacking amd64 stage3 tarball on top of root |
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>> or something else |
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> Unpacking a stage 3 tarball on top of a working system is a good way of |
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> converting it to a non-working system. It will also overwrite many of |
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> your settings in /etc. |
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> If you are going to use a stage 3 tarball as a basis, a clean stage 3 |
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> install is by far the safest option, and usually turns out to be the |
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> quickest too. Backup /etc and your world file first, use your old |
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> make.conf as a starting point and recreate your old environment on the |
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> new hardware with |
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> emerge -1av $(cat oldworld) |
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Just a thought: Is it possible to compile a 64bit kernel and use him on |
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the current system? That way you could set up your new native 64bit |
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system in a chroot before overwriting the old one and thus minimize |
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downtime to less than 15 minutes. |
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