Regards Prabhat
Pat Kerwan wrote:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:58:21AM -0400, Prabhat Gupta wrote:
Hi Vano,
Can you give me little more detail on the procedure. Here is my understanding:
1. Untar the stagex in /xxx/slow/ on fast machine
2. chroot /xxx/slow /bin/bash
3. make changes to make.conf
4. bootstrap
5. emerge kernel sources
6. compile kernel
7. emerge XFree
8. emerge kde-base
9. Tar up /xxx/slow
From here, you have a few options:
10. Take the HD from slow machine to fast machine
11. mount the root partition to /mnt/gentoo
12. mount the boot partition to /mnt/gentoo/boot
13. copy the tarball to /mnt/gentoo
14. cd to /mnt/gentoo and untar it
15. chroot to /mnt/gentoo
16. Install grub/lilo
Alternately, you could take the fast machine's HD to slow machine.
Lastly, if you have NFS set up on your fast machine, you could:
10. Export /xxx/slow with NFS
11. Boot slow machine with the Live CD
12. Set up the /mnt/gentoo and /mnt/gentoo/boot mount points as usual
13. mount the NFS share to /mnt/slow
14. copy tarball from /mnt/slow to /mnt/gentoo
15. cd to /mnt/gentoo and untar it
16. chroot to /mnt/gentoo
17. Install grub/lilo
- PK
9. Go to slow machine
10. WHAT NEXT ?? The slow machine has a swap parition and a ROOT parition. I have not used rsync. How to boot the slow machine?
Thanks for your help Prabhat
Vano D wrote:
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 18:01, Prabhat Gupta wrote:--
You'll be lucky to get XFree and KDE compiled and configured on those old machines within 24 hours even if you have no problems.:(( ~ ~ ~
Puggy
What is wrong with compiling your system under chroot in a fast box and then rsync -a it to your slower machine? I have also tarred whole system and transferred them to slower machines.. all ok
You basically untar the stagex file to a dir on the fast machine, set the compile flags in /etc/make.conf so it is a pentium, bootstrap it, emerge whatever you want and even configure the whole thing, then chroot out of the dir, either use rsync -a to copy the system dir to the / of the slow machine, or use tar to create a tarball or tar it over the network.
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