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On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 14:44 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> I try to keep a "up to date" stage 4 tarball here in my system just in |
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> case. I basically did the creation just like I would if I were booted |
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> from the CD. I created /mnt/gentoo/ on my system, extracted a stage 3 |
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> there, then chroot in and create a stage 4 tarball. I have one weird |
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> thing tho that has me confused. When it creates the stage 4 tarball, it |
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> is in /mnt/gentoo. Today I unpacked the stage 4 so that I could update |
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> it and when I do a tar xjpf stage4 -C /mnt/gentoo, it actually looks |
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> like this, /mnt/gentoo/mnt/gentoo/ which is not what I am looking for. |
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> It doesn't matter on a running system, but it would if I were trying to |
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> rescue myself. |
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> |
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> How do I tell tar when I am making the tarball to look at /mnt/gentoo/ |
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> as it start point, root directory if you will? I read the man page but |
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> suspect I am missing it somewhere. There has to be a way since it is |
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> done that way for the stage 3 tarball. |
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I do just |
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# cd /mnt/gentoo |
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# tar cjpf /somewhere/gentoo4.tar.bz2 . |
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^ dot @ the end! |
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Which produces a tarball containg everything under "." - which is the |
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CWD -> ./bin ./boot ...and so on. |
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Bye, |
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Daniel |
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