Tom Eastman wrote: > I'm about to install gentoo on a temporary partition on my P4 box. > The installation, when done, will be transfered to my pentium 3 and > I'll do the final bootloader/misc setup stuff that can only be done > on the real box. > > How do people recommend I transfer the completed gentoo installation > to the new computer? I can't just copy the raw partitions because > (a) they're not the right size, and (b) they're on an LVM volume. > > So I need some way of copying over the network that will preserve all > the required permissions and stuff... would rsync be the way to go? > Or maybe tarring up the whole thing once it's done? > > What kind of options would I have to provide to ensure that all the > permissions/ownerships are set correctly? > > Can anyone see any other potential tripfalls I haven't thought of?
When I built my Pentium-233 system using my Pentium 4 box, I followed the Installation guide using a chroot'ed environment into a file system that had plenty of space. Once I was finished, I used tar/bzip (i.e. tar cvjf ) to archive the resulting system. In my case since the system was in another location, I wrote the file to a CD-ROM. Went to the Pentium 233 system, booted it with a rescue system (Since it was initially running SuSE, I used that) I then repartioned, did a mkfs to make the new file systems, mounted the file systems, and extracted the tar image. At that point, I did a chroot into the new file systems and ran grub to install the bootloader. I then rebooted and everything came up and I rechecked the configuration and fixed the stuff I missed. I estimate that I definitely saved several days by not having to compile on the pentium 233. Regards, Paul -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
