From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KObly-0007fX-Ei for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:17:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A76D5E04B0; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:16:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EF3CE04B0 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:16:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AEB965CA6 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:16:03 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.367 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.367 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.232, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id BZWXCQX+E++e for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:15:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33B1A65C86 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:15:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KObkm-0001pb-Sq for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:15:52 +0000 Received: from athedsl-61667.home.otenet.gr ([87.203.218.49]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:15:52 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-61667.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:15:52 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: move instalation from one system to another one. Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:15:41 +0300 Message-ID: References: <200807301325.49352.Platoali@gmail.com> <20080730103405.GA5620@marvin.heimnetz.local> <20080731181202.87e69a0b.nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net> <342e1090807311007n43d09f42vc5d7c6fe885a858a@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-61667.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080728) In-Reply-To: <342e1090807311007n43d09f42vc5d7c6fe885a858a@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 7bbd08c6-992b-4053-a4d7-8e98f63f7461 X-Archives-Hash: f91802ce6b760c1217c17beaa7195507 Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht > wrote: >> Sebastian G=C3=BCnther a =C3=A9crit: >> >>> If you want such functionality, use Debian or Ubuntu. >> Or just use the good C*FLAGS and kernel options. >> >=20 > Nicolas is right, you can (at your own risk, of course) do a migration > like this, so "DON'T" is not really the only option, and changing > distros is NOT an option in most cases. Gentoo is perfectly capable of > that. >=20 > Change flags in make.conf for generic compatible ones, compile a new > kernel (I used genkernel for the migration, and compiled a specific > kernel for the new machine later), emerge -e world and transfer the > system (I used rsync, and had to deal with some network issues), > everything worked (after some fine tunning for the new hardware) for > me. Yeah, but that way you're doing emerge -e world twice. One on the old=20 system, and one on the new system (to optimize for the specific CPU=20 again; -march=3Dnative). It's usually faster to install from scratch and= =20 only transfer your setting to the new system.