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On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:31:33 -0500 |
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Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Dan Farrell wrote: |
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> > Howdy folks. Today I have a fun exercise but am short on ideas. |
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> > Any suggestions? |
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> > I have an old hard drive from my router, a Pentium III. Now i've |
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> > gone and put that hard drive in an Athlon-based machine, which |
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> > doesn't support the P-III instruction set completely. |
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> > The computer boots and the kernel runs just fine, but many of the |
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> > programs do not work. The biggest thorn in my side is emerge not |
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> > working; therefore, I can't fix the problem with a simle empty-tree |
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> > emerge. |
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> > I am considering doing a full reinstall. But, I don't want to be |
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> > bothered. |
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> > |
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> > What do you all think of the idea of extracting a stage3 onto an |
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> > existing installation? Is there any way this could yield a set of |
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> > utilities (namely python or emerge, whichever isn't working now) |
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> > enough so that I could successfully issue an 'emerge -e world' ? |
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> > Thanks for your time and suggestions, |
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> > Dan Farrell |
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> There is a portage rescue method. Here is the info for ya: |
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> > Please see |
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> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml |
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> > for a recovery guide for a broken portage installation. |
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> Then you should be able to adjust make.conf and emerge the whole |
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> world. |
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> I hope that helps. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Thanks Dale, I'm sure it will help. |
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- Dan |
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