"Alan E. Davis" <[email protected]> writes: > Season's Greetings to one and all. > I would like to be able to generate a script or list of packages of > some kind that would enable me to install Gentoo with an identical > profile of installed packages. Since with Debian/Ubuntu one can run > dpkg --get-selections > file > and > dpkg --set-selections < file > (or some such), one imagines that the Gentoo gurus/magicians are able > to do something similar. > It takes me months to get a new machine up to speed. In fact, I have > just realized I don't have tcsh installed, something I hardly EVER use, > but need to run a one of a kind script. > Can anyone make a suggestion? Am I missing something? > Thanks > Alan Davis
You might also consider a stage4 installation: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Custom_Stage4 I have just gone through this procedure to re-install gentoo on a laptop that had not been updated in a very long time. Cheers, Roger
