I did it last week.

in some place untar che last stage3-xxx

mount --bind proc, dev, usr/portage, passwd, group ecc
copy inside current make.conf, make.profile
chroot inside the new stage.

when finish i make a big tar of everyone in the new chroot.
reboot with live cd, move all my old system in /old, untar the new
system on the rootfs.

if something is missing in the new system , you have the original file
of configuration in /old

P.S. sometime i make something like stage4 from livecd and i store it in
a USB HD.

If something is going wrong, in 20 min i can restore all my system.




Il giorno mer, 12/11/2008 alle 01.35 -0600, Harry Putnam ha scritto:

> I should know how to do this but so many changes have happened
> recently and I haven't done anything like this for a very long time.
> 
> My desktop version of gentoo is pretty far out of date.  And I think
> there have been enough changes that I don't even want to try to get it
> cleaned up.  
> 
> Rather, I'd like to build up a newly installed gentoo to the point
> where it has all the stuff I want.  But do it inside a vmware virtual
> machine. 
> 
> I'm trying to keep my working desktop in place until such time as the
> vmware gentoo setup is ready
> 
> Once that install is up to speed with all my preferred apps in place.
> And any kinks worked out...
> Only then use it to overwrite my desktop OS.  Or reformat that disk
> and move the vmware gentoo version to it.
> 
> The vmware gentoo would be guest on a windows XP pro machine.
> 
> I'd like to hear any comments concerning what problems I might run
> into or whether the plan is likely to be a serious mess.
> 
> Also wouldn't mind seeing a rough outline of how to make that kind of
> move. 
> 
> 
>