Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Resurrecting a Gentoo install
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:10:21
Message-Id: 4F1A021C.3080804@orlitzky.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Resurrecting a Gentoo install by Grant
1 On 01/20/12 18:58, Grant wrote:
2 >> OK, so the install is old and portage has dependencies, right?
3 >>
4 >> emerge -pvDuN portage
5 >>
6 >> will get you closer. However this is probably best covered using
7 >> Neil's suggestion of
8 >>
9 >> emerge -pvDuN @system
10 >
11 > I can't even get started:
12 >
13
14 Do you have some idea of what config files are important on the machine?
15 You can always extract a stage3 at the root. That basically installs the
16 latest @system for you, with the massive caveat that you won't have
17 CONFIG_PROTECTion.