From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ik4ws-0004Qn-Ui for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:36:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9MLZGCK016727; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:35:16 GMT Received: from tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.93]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9MLUxRM011879 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:31:00 GMT Received: from sympatico.ca ([70.49.176.22]) by tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with SMTP id <20071022213058.KSWT7990.tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net@sympatico.ca> for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:30:58 -0400 Received: by sympatico.ca (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:30:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:30:58 -0400 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: new box Message-ID: <20071022213058.GF4634@sympatico.ca> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20071019183538.GA4639@sympatico.ca> <200710201444.58927.wonko@wonkology.org> <200710221839.35410.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200710221839.35410.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: f8f0ec16-399d-4f02-91ce-0c84834aaf2a X-Archives-Hash: e010bcfe027675c43ebaf279065842d0 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. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : purslow@chass.utoronto.ca ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list