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 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
