Re: System for PIII now lives in K7; any way to rebuild without full reinstall?

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System for PIII now lives in K7; any way to reb...
\ Dan Farrell (5 Jul 2007)
. \ Dale (5 Jul 2007)
. . \ Dan Farrell (6 Jul 2007)
. . \ Dan Farrell (10 Jul 2007)

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Subject:	Re: System for PIII now lives in K7; any way to rebuild without full reinstall?
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Dan Farrell
Date:	10 Jul 2007

On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:31:33 -0500
Dale <dalek1967> wrote:

> Dan Farrell wrote:
> > Howdy folks. Today I have a fun exercise but am short on ideas.
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > I have an old hard drive from my router, a Pentium III. Now i've
> > gone and put that hard drive in an Athlon-based machine, which
> > doesn't support the P-III instruction set completely.
> >
> > The computer boots and the kernel runs just fine, but many of the
> > programs do not work. The biggest thorn in my side is emerge not
> > working; therefore, I can't fix the problem with a simle empty-tree
> > emerge.
> >
> > I am considering doing a full reinstall. But, I don't want to be
> > bothered.
> >
> > What do you all think of the idea of extracting a stage3 onto an
> > existing installation? Is there any way this could yield a set of
> > utilities (namely python or emerge, whichever isn't working now)
> > enough so that I could successfully issue an 'emerge -e world' ?
> >
> > Thanks for your time and suggestions,
> > Dan Farrell
> >
>
>
> There is a portage rescue method. Here is the info for ya:
>
> > Please see
> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml
> > for a recovery guide for a broken portage installation.
>
> Then you should be able to adjust make.conf and emerge the whole
> world.
>
> I hope that helps.
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
>
Interestingly enough, that didn't work. I ended up untarring a stage
three onto the hard drive and going from there. It would have worked
really well if I had bothered to protect my portage world files and
such. As it is I think I'll have to rebuild a lot of stuff over again,
in that it seems I installed a stage3-fresh world package listing over
my old one. Oh well, it was an entirely different system anyway, and
this old system was 3+ years old, so it was probably about time for a
rebuild anyway.
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