I try to keep a "up to date" stage 4 tarball here in my system just in case. I basically did the creation just like I would if I were booted from the CD. I created /mnt/gentoo/ on my system, extracted a stage 3 there, then chroot in and create a stage 4 tarball. I have one weird thing tho that has me confused. When it creates the stage 4 tarball, it is in /mnt/gentoo. Today I unpacked the stage 4 so that I could update it and when I do a tar xjpf stage4 -C /mnt/gentoo, it actually looks like this, /mnt/gentoo/mnt/gentoo/ which is not what I am looking for. It doesn't matter on a running system, but it would if I were trying to rescue myself.
How do I tell tar when I am making the tarball to look at /mnt/gentoo/ as it start point, root directory if you will? I read the man page but suspect I am missing it somewhere. There has to be a way since it is done that way for the stage 3 tarball. Thanks Dale :-) :-)
