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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vbox vm no boot
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 10:48:45 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA2qdGUFJ=wBmwgh+Hbbgs4m4Ty0bNHFUg48gZtR4TNHugiJhA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87obvnu1sp.fsf@newsguy.com>

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On Dec 5, 2011 10:42 AM, "Harry Putnam" <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>
> Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> writes:
>
> > Just before emerging the source, you really should tarball *everything*
> > (except /proc, /sys, /var/tmp/*, and /usr/portage/distfiles/*), so you
can
> > just 'pick up where you left it' :-)
> >
>
> That's almost as slow as starting over from scratch... hehe.
>

In my case, I've successfully re-used the "stage3.5" tarball anytime I need
to deploy a new Gentoo VM. Saves on download time :-)

(I also have gcc upgraded to 4.5.3 and performed the acrobatics necessary
to activate gcc's Graphite feature, and upgraded glibc, *before* creating
stage3.5, so yes it's a huge timesaver for me)

Rgds,

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-05  3:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-04 21:53 [gentoo-user] vbox vm no boot Harry Putnam
2011-12-04 22:08 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-12-04 23:42   ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2011-12-05  0:14     ` Harry Putnam
2011-12-05  0:34       ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-05  0:49         ` Harry Putnam
2011-12-05  1:01           ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-05  1:10             ` Alan McKinnon
2011-12-05  1:14             ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-05  1:30             ` Harry Putnam
2011-12-05  2:38               ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-05  3:37                 ` Harry Putnam
2011-12-05  3:48                   ` Pandu Poluan [this message]
2011-12-05  1:07         ` Alan McKinnon
2011-12-05  1:20           ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-05  7:42             ` Alan McKinnon
2011-12-05 14:26               ` Harry Putnam
2011-12-05 17:46                 ` Claudio Roberto França Pereira
2011-12-06  0:53                   ` Harry Putnam
2011-12-06  1:05                     ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-06  2:51                       ` Claudio Roberto França Pereira
2011-12-06  4:10                 ` Walter Dnes
2011-12-05  1:25           ` Harry Putnam
2011-12-05  6:20             ` Mick

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