Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-13 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Dirk, Hi, List! > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:59:09AM +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: >> - Update the grub.conf to pass the correct root. (btw, does anyone use >> anything other than grub these days?) > > Yes. I use LILO. My

Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Michele Schiavo
I did it last week. in some place untar che last stage3-xxx mount --bind proc, dev, usr/portage, passwd, group ecc copy inside current make.conf, make.profile chroot inside the new stage. when finish i make a big tar of everyone in the new chroot. reboot with live cd, move all my old system in /

Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > > I have my grub menu set up with 2 kernel choices; one points > to/vmlinuz and the other points to /vmlinuz.old, that way i don't ever > have to edit anything. Comes in handy if the new kernel blows up :) > > > I too have two entries. One for the current kernel and one f

Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> Hi, Dirk, Hi, List! >> >> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:59:09AM +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: >> >>> - Update the grub.conf to pass the correct root. (btw, does anyone use >>> anything other than grub these days?) >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Dale
Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Dirk, Hi, List! > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:59:09AM +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: > >> - Update the grub.conf to pass the correct root. (btw, does anyone use >> anything other than grub these days?) >> > > Yes. I use LILO. My lilo.conf traces its ancestry back to m

Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Dirk, Hi, List! On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:59:09AM +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: > - Update the grub.conf to pass the correct root. (btw, does anyone use > anything other than grub these days?) Yes. I use LILO. My lilo.conf traces its ancestry back to my original Linux installation, SuSE 5.3. Why

Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:35:32 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Rather, I'd like to build up a newly installed gentoo to the point > where it has all the stuff I want. But do it inside a vmware virtual > machine. > > I'm trying to keep my working desktop in place until such time as the > vmware gento

Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/11/12 Garry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > tar -cvzpf - ./bin ./boot ./dev ./etc ./lib ./lost+found ./media ./mnt ./opt > ./proc ./root ./sbin ./sys ./usr ./var | ssh -p8889 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cd > /mnt/gentoo; tar -xzpf -" > > Unfortunately the symbolic links all came out as 0 byte files (no

Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Garry Smith
Dirk Uys wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I should know how to do this but so many changes have happened recently and I haven't done anything like this for a very long time. My desktop version of gentoo is pretty far out of date. And I think th

Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-11 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I should know how to do this but so many changes have happened > recently and I haven't done anything like this for a very long time. > > My desktop version of gentoo is pretty far out of date. And I think > there have been

[gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-11 Thread Harry Putnam
I should know how to do this but so many changes have happened recently and I haven't done anything like this for a very long time. My desktop version of gentoo is pretty far out of date. And I think there have been enough changes that I don't even want to try to get it cleaned up. Rather, I'd