[gentoo-user] Re: new box

[Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca>]

071022 Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 20 October 2007, Alex Schuster wrote:
>> Philip Webb writes:
>>> BTW I'm amazed that System Rescue doesn't seem to know re 'pppoe'.
>>> I hope to install Gentoo from the copied files w/o using the I/net.
>> You can use any other boot CD, unless you use the automatic installer,
>> but it seems people don't like it & prefer to do the install manually.
> Is there a good reason for not using ssh
> to transport any fs you want from one machine to the other?
> That's how I usually do it using tar and pipes (tar>>pipe>>untar).

Well yes, if they're not part of a network (smile).

I've got my new box booting correctly
& am  c 30 %  thro' re-merging all the pkgs listed by 'emerge -ep system',
some of which were installed from Stage 3, but now have later versions.
I never fall for 'emerge world' or 'emerge system':
there are far too many tales of woe on this list due to such trust (smile).
I'm working from a printed list & adding each pkg to my master list
or more accurately my list of pkgs installed in my current machine.
The new one is lightning-fast, so it's not as painful as it might sound.

BTW there have been  3  glitches so far:
(1) it refused to compile 'sandbox' with some error;
(2) it can't find 'revdep-rebuild' despite saying I should run it !
(3) 'busybox' doesn't default to 'static' as on my current machine.
Any comments or advice welcome, but these haven't stopped the show.

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