| 1 |
Stroller wrote: |
| 2 |
> |
| 3 |
> On 30 Apr 2009, at 20:44, Dale wrote: |
| 4 |
> |
| 5 |
>> I try to keep a "up to date" stage 4 tarball here in my system just in |
| 6 |
>> case. I basically did the creation just like I would if I were booted |
| 7 |
>> from the CD. I created /mnt/gentoo/ on my system, extracted a stage 3 |
| 8 |
>> there, then chroot in and create a stage 4 tarball. |
| 9 |
> |
| 10 |
> I don't understand how this creates a stage4 of your system. |
| 11 |
> |
| 12 |
> How EXACTLY are you creating the stage4, please? What guide are you |
| 13 |
> following? |
| 14 |
> |
| 15 |
> When I have in the past created a backup stage4 (which I have to admit |
| 16 |
> I've never needed to test), I have used a stage4.exclude file like |
| 17 |
> that described at [1], then used the tar command specified there. |
| 18 |
> |
| 19 |
> <insert s-tar comment or joke here> |
| 20 |
> |
| 21 |
> Either I'm confused, or I expect the remainder of the thread to be |
| 22 |
> confused because the basic premise of what you're trying to do has not |
| 23 |
> been clearly defined. |
| 24 |
> |
| 25 |
> Stroller. |
| 26 |
> |
| 27 |
> |
| 28 |
> |
| 29 |
> [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Custom_Stage4#The_TAR_system |
| 30 |
> |
| 31 |
> |
| 32 |
|
| 33 |
Well, I do something like this. Once every few months I extract that |
| 34 |
stage4 tarball to /mnt/gentoo. I then mount my portage partition to |
| 35 |
/mnt/gentoo/usr/portage. I then mount proc and chroot in. Then I do a |
| 36 |
emerge -uvDN world to update everything, log out of the chroot and |
| 37 |
umount proc and portage. Then I create a new tarball that has the date |
| 38 |
in the name. I keep a couple of these stored on on my backups as well. |
| 39 |
|
| 40 |
I don't want to download a prebuilt stage3 because I'm on dialup here |
| 41 |
and it takes a long time to download. So, I just make my own and update |
| 42 |
them when needed. |
| 43 |
|
| 44 |
Make sense? |
| 45 |
|
| 46 |
Dale |
| 47 |
|
| 48 |
:-) :-) |
Archives