Stroller wrote: > > On 30 Apr 2009, at 20:44, Dale wrote: > >> 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 don't understand how this creates a stage4 of your system. > > How EXACTLY are you creating the stage4, please? What guide are you > following? > > When I have in the past created a backup stage4 (which I have to admit > I've never needed to test), I have used a stage4.exclude file like > that described at [1], then used the tar command specified there. > > <insert s-tar comment or joke here> > > Either I'm confused, or I expect the remainder of the thread to be > confused because the basic premise of what you're trying to do has not > been clearly defined. > > Stroller. > > > > [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Custom_Stage4#The_TAR_system > >
Well, I do something like this. Once every few months I extract that stage4 tarball to /mnt/gentoo. I then mount my portage partition to /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage. I then mount proc and chroot in. Then I do a emerge -uvDN world to update everything, log out of the chroot and umount proc and portage. Then I create a new tarball that has the date in the name. I keep a couple of these stored on on my backups as well. I don't want to download a prebuilt stage3 because I'm on dialup here and it takes a long time to download. So, I just make my own and update them when needed. Make sense? Dale :-) :-)
