On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 16:20 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My system has developed serious problems related to the emul libs. The > advice given as a reply to my bug has made the system impossible to > upgrade using emerge. It is possible the problem dates back to the > 2004.3->2005.0 upgrade, I don't know. > > Is there a way to build a "from scratch" 2005.1 system over the net > without having to download and boot from a CD? Will it leave my user > directories alone? The installation docs assume that you don't have a > runnig gentoo system and start with a boot CD.
I wouldn't do this without a developer telling you it is going to work but.... Get a bootable Linux CD and boot from it and unzip the portage snapshot and stage tarball onto your system as the manual says. Then sync, bootstrap, and emerge -e world. That should get you back to where you are functional. Just use the newest 2005.1 stage on the install. > Thanks, > Scott -- Tres Melton IRC & Gentoo: RiverRat -- [email protected] mailing list
