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Dan Farrell wrote: |
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> Howdy folks. Today I have a fun exercise but am short on ideas. Any |
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> suggestions? |
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> I have an old hard drive from my router, a Pentium III. Now i've gone |
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> and put that hard drive in an Athlon-based machine, which doesn't |
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> 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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> 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) enough |
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> 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 world. |
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I hope that helps. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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