-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Monday 13 March 2006 01:44, David Guerizec wrote: >> On Sunday 12 March 2006 16:50, Paul de Vrieze wrote: >>> On Sunday 12 March 2006 11:29, Neil Stone wrote: >>>> OK, I have managed to get my gentoo system in to a rather wierd >>>> state... I will be rebuilding it shortly (several apps installed >>>> that fail to work now etc..) >>>> >>>> Is there anything wrong with building on a separate disk, in the >>>> same machine using chroot ? >>> There shouldn't, unless you used some strange bind mounts. (bind >>> mounting /dev, /sys, /usr/portage, and /proc is ok. (If you build >>> binary packages, and it is a 32bit chroot, put them somewhere else). >>> Even building in a subdirectory works (I've done it often enough). >> I'm curious to know how you built a new system in a subdirectory >> without chroot. Can you share your experience or a pointer ? > > Not without CHROOT indeed. That's really really hard to do. And portage > can't do it. Chroot works though, and it does not need to be a separate > partition/disk. (though you can't boot from a directory .... well..... > out of the box) > > Paul >
Any chance someone could email me a copy of the /proc/config.gz file from an Athlon64 ? I may have to resort to using the 'manual' config if no-one is able.. TIA Neil Stone - -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GIT d+(++) s: a-(?) C++++(--) UL++++$ P+ L+++ E- W+++ N+ o+ w--- O M PS+ Y+ PGP++ t+ 5+ X+ R+ tv+ b- DI++ D+++ G e h--- r+++ y++++(**) - -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFf+Mz3Av8JKgzxQRAluCAJ0dKEdS8Kh1IYQpq4c1ZBp9AE0qTQCeNSy7 kEDbUe3bUAZ/cS+VBMdc9hk= =7BcB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
