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From: Matthew Daubenspeck <matt@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Server migration
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:48:44
Message-Id: 20080811154841.GH27258@sinclair
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Server migration by Albert Hopkins
1 On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:44:43AM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
2 > The easiest thing to do would be to migrate system, P2V, as is. I dont'
3 > know what virtual server software you are using, but there are tools to
4 > do this (plus with Linux it's easy enough doing manually).
5 >
6 > Aside from that if you actually want to re-build the box from scratch,
7 > I'd copy the /etc/make.conf, /etc/portage/* and /var/lib/portage/world
8 > file over and, after performing a stageX install, do a "emerge -va `cat
9 > world`"
10
11 I am migrating from an amd64 based colo server to a linode system that
12 is not amd64, so I don't think most of the automated methods would work,
13 although I could be wrong...
14 --
15 Matthew Daubenspeck
16 http://oddprocess.org
17
18 Gentoo Linux x86_64 Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 165
19 11:47:52 up 273 days, 2:35, 4 users, load average: 0.09, 0.03, 0.01

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Re: [gentoo-user] Server migration Matt Nordhoff <mnordhoff@×××××.com>