On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:58:21AM -0400, Prabhat Gupta wrote: > Hi Vano, > > Can you give me little more detail on the procedure. Here is my > understanding: > > 1. Untar the stagex in /xxx/slow/ on fast machine > > 2. chroot /xxx/slow /bin/bash > > 3. make changes to make.conf > > 4. bootstrap > > 5. emerge kernel sources > > 6. compile kernel > > 7. emerge XFree > > 8. emerge kde-base >
9. Tar up /xxx/slow >From here, you have a few options: 10. Take the HD from slow machine to fast machine 11. mount the root partition to /mnt/gentoo 12. mount the boot partition to /mnt/gentoo/boot 13. copy the tarball to /mnt/gentoo 14. cd to /mnt/gentoo and untar it 15. chroot to /mnt/gentoo 16. Install grub/lilo Alternately, you could take the fast machine's HD to slow machine. Lastly, if you have NFS set up on your fast machine, you could: 10. Export /xxx/slow with NFS 11. Boot slow machine with the Live CD 12. Set up the /mnt/gentoo and /mnt/gentoo/boot mount points as usual 13. mount the NFS share to /mnt/slow 14. copy tarball from /mnt/slow to /mnt/gentoo 15. cd to /mnt/gentoo and untar it 16. chroot to /mnt/gentoo 17. Install grub/lilo - PK > 9. Go to slow machine > > 10. WHAT NEXT ?? The slow machine has a swap parition and a ROOT > parition. I have not used rsync. How to boot the slow machine? > > > Thanks for your help > Prabhat > > > Vano D wrote: > > >On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 18:01, Prabhat Gupta wrote: > > > > > > > >>>You'll be lucky to get XFree and KDE compiled and configured on those > >>>old machines within 24 hours even if you have no problems. > >>> > >>>Puggy > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>:(( ~ ~ ~ > >> > >> > >> > > > >What is wrong with compiling your system under chroot in a fast box and > >then rsync -a it to your slower machine? I have also tarred whole system > >and transferred them to slower machines.. all ok > > > >You basically untar the stagex file to a dir on the fast machine, set > >the compile flags in /etc/make.conf so it is a pentium, bootstrap it, > >emerge whatever you want and even configure the whole thing, then chroot > >out of the dir, either use rsync -a to copy the system dir to the / of > >the slow machine, or use tar to create a tarball or tar it over the > >network. > > > >Cheers, > > > > > > > > -- > P r a b h a t G u p t a > /\/\* > > Senior Software Engineer > Alternative System Concepts, Inc. > www.ascinc.com > 22 Haverhill Road > Windham, NH 03087 > > Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o) > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
