On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:31:33 -0500 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Farrell wrote: > > Howdy folks. Today I have a fun exercise but am short on ideas. > > Any suggestions? > > > > I have an old hard drive from my router, a Pentium III. Now i've > > gone and put that hard drive in an Athlon-based machine, which > > doesn't support the P-III instruction set completely. > > > > The computer boots and the kernel runs just fine, but many of the > > programs do not work. The biggest thorn in my side is emerge not > > working; therefore, I can't fix the problem with a simle empty-tree > > emerge. > > > > I am considering doing a full reinstall. But, I don't want to be > > bothered. > > > > What do you all think of the idea of extracting a stage3 onto an > > existing installation? Is there any way this could yield a set of > > utilities (namely python or emerge, whichever isn't working now) > > enough so that I could successfully issue an 'emerge -e world' ? > > > > Thanks for your time and suggestions, > > Dan Farrell > > > > > There is a portage rescue method. Here is the info for ya: > > > Please see > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml > > for a recovery guide for a broken portage installation. > > Then you should be able to adjust make.conf and emerge the whole > world. > > I hope that helps. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > Interestingly enough, that didn't work. I ended up untarring a stage three onto the hard drive and going from there. It would have worked really well if I had bothered to protect my portage world files and such. As it is I think I'll have to rebuild a lot of stuff over again, in that it seems I installed a stage3-fresh world package listing over my old one. Oh well, it was an entirely different system anyway, and this old system was 3+ years old, so it was probably about time for a rebuild anyway. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
