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On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:17:53 +0200 |
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Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick schrieb: |
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...[snip]... |
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> > Unpacking a stage 3 tarball on top of a working system is a good |
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> > way of converting it to a non-working system. It will also |
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> > overwrite many of your settings in /etc. |
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> > If you are going to use a stage 3 tarball as a basis, a clean stage |
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> > 3 install is by far the safest option, and usually turns out to be |
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> > the quickest too. Backup /etc and your world file first, use your |
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> > old make.conf as a starting point and recreate your old environment |
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> > on the new hardware with |
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> > emerge -1av $(cat oldworld) |
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> Just a thought: Is it possible to compile a 64bit kernel and use him |
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> on the current system? That way you could set up your new native 64bit |
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> system in a chroot before overwriting the old one and thus minimize |
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> downtime to less than 15 minutes. |
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Florian, |
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That would be ideal! It's exactly what I'd do -- if it's |
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doable. |
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Hopefully the experts will point to a HOWTO :-> |
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David |
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