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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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Neil Bothwick |
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