Here is what I am doing.. Since you have an extra drive, I added the drive (or use another computer) and got an install working.. I then added all the users and copied over the /home directories for them. (making sure you either use the same guids, or chown -R..
The key is, once you have down a emerge system, to install each thing one by one and get it working right. Then move on to the next. Once that is done, you can either cp -a to the the system. (I highly recommend a backup before hand) or just swap the drives.. (as I am doing..) just make note of your /etc/fstab is correct if they change at all. Its really not to hard, just gonna take time. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 2:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [gentoo-user] Building packages for another system > > > Sorry if this is duplicate. I thought I'd sent it > already, but wasn't seeing it come back to me. > > I'm looking for options to upgrade a system that's currently > running another distribution of linux to Gentoo. This system is > doing production work, so I want to minimize downtime and have a way > to backout the new load if I'm having problems. I have an extra hard > drive that I could swap in. > > I've heard that there are ways to prebuild binaries from Gentoo > sources to speed up an install, but I can't find them documented > anywhere. > > Is it an option to stick the hard drive in a different computer > and install Gentoo, or will it not likely boot once moved? > > Anyway, any ideas would be appreciated. > > Thanks > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
