On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:38:36 -0400, David Relson wrote: > I recall installing Gentoo as being a P.I.T.A, hence take no pleasure > in the idea of re-installing. I was hoping for something relatively > simple, like > changing CHOST and emerging world > unpacking amd64 stage3 tarball on top of root > or something else
Unpacking a stage 3 tarball on top of a working system is a good way of converting it to a non-working system. It will also overwrite many of your settings in /etc. If you are going to use a stage 3 tarball as a basis, a clean stage 3 install is by far the safest option, and usually turns out to be the quickest too. Backup /etc and your world file first, use your old make.conf as a starting point and recreate your old environment on the new hardware with emerge -1av $(cat oldworld) -- Neil Bothwick Electric chairs are period furniture: they end a sentence
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