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On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Samir Faci wrote: |
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> I'm actually trying a slightly different approach that's almost |
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> equivalent to doing a fresh install. |
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> If I don't bork this up, I'll write a lil wiki on how to do this. |
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> 1. create a loopback file system. dd if=/dev/zero of=baseimage |
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> bs=1k count=5242880 (5 gig image) |
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> 2. partition the baseimage |
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> 3. do your typical gentoo install on the baseimage file |
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> 4. sync data from baseimage fs, to / omitting /dev /proc /sys /home |
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> making sure this is all backed up |
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> 5. rerun grub to make sure everything is proper |
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> 6. reboot and pray. |
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> so, if I'm right, that should give me a clean fresh install. I'll |
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> take a backup of my /etc directory and I need to remember to backup |
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> mysql db, but I believe that should work fine. I would do this off a |
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> liveCD if I had physical access to the machine. |
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> It seems like the cleanest solution. if I run emerge -uDN (etc) |
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> world it just keeps pulling X and other crap I removed, and since 80% |
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> of what's on the machine it unneeded, a fresh start wouldn't hurt. |
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> if anyone is interested, I'll post an update on how my install went |
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> once it's back up. |
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It seems to me that you are overlooking some stuff, and what you propose |
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is just way too complex. |
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Packages get pulled in through your world file, USE flags and due to |
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run-time and build time deps. If emerge keeps wanting to pull in |
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something X related, it's because you left someting in one of those |
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three categories that is X-related. Simply find it and handle it. I |
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have several times removed gnome and kde from this machine and it was |
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much faster than a reinstall. |
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'emerge -pe' and 'equery depgraph' are your friends |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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