> >>On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 08:56, stephen wrote: > >> > >>>I'm replacing my P3 850/Asus CUV4X with an Athlon 2700+/Asus A7N8X-X, but > >>>would like to keep my gentoo intact as much as I can. > >>> > >>>Currently I use CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" > >>> and have things like mmx and sse in my USE flags (should I take those > >>> out and use 3dnow instead?). I also use LVM with vgroups for usr, > >>> usr/local, var and tmp. > >>> > >>>I wonder if this will even boot now. Can anyone give me some hints about the > >>>best way to make the transition? Any help appreciated. > > > > > > Try this: > > > > 1) Pull the HD from your old system and shove it in your new one. > > 2) Fire up your new system with the Gentoo install CD > > 3) Mount your old partitions under /mnt/gentoo say > > 4) make a chroot jail like you do when installing > > .. at which point, the new Athlon system starts using the P3-optimised > binaries, and if they don't work, starts segfaulting. You might as well > just boot the system directly on the new hardware (compile yourself > another kernel first ;P ). > > > 5) modify make.conf to your liking (athlon-xp CFLAGS and new USE stuff) > > 6) emerge -ueD world > > 7) when finished unmount the chroot jail > > 8) Rebood to your new system. >
Ah yes I suppose that is true... at Step 4 then you need to untar a stage-1 1.4 tarball for Athlon-xp under /mnt/gentoo. First, see what will get over-written but I doubt anything that won't be getting wacked soon so no problem... also make a backup of /mnt/gentoo/etc, say /mnt/gentoo/etc2. Then follow on with instructions.... this also has the nice effect that all will be compiled with a Athlon-xp comipiled GCC... just like as if you did a bootstrap. You won't need to compile a new kernel as you are still using the Gentoo 1.4 CD kernel. Does that work better for you MAL ;-P! Cheers, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
