Dale composed on 2015-08-04 12:41 (UTC-0500): > First, you are going to have a interesting few days, at least. It would > be faster and easier to start fresh. Honestly. If you just have to or > want to for a learning experience, cool.
> See if eselect exists. If it does, try this: > eselect profile list > If that works, pick whatever profile is closest to what you use and set > it. That *should* take care of your first problem. No complaint from selecting 3, then 6. > You got lots more coming I bet. It already seems to be telling me don't. Man portage works, but portage --help produces not found. :-P I've yet to figure out how to get a list of all installed packages akin to 'rpm -qa | sort', so I really don't know what my starting configuration is. Startx doesn't work, which looks like maybe because /usr/bin/X* doesn't exist, and /etc/X11 is rather sparse. > If that doesn't work, then you have to link it the old fashioned way. > Link the directory for the profile in > /usr/portage/profiles/<your-profile> to /etc/make.profile and then see > if it is happy. > Also, since this is going to be uphill all the way, I'd use the latest > unstable portage excluding the 9999 version. At least that way, portage > will help solve some problems, if it can. http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/gentoo/distfiles/portage-2.2.8.tar.bz2 wouldn't be close enough, or is that what you're suggesting? http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/gentoo/snapshots/ has a lot to pick from. > I suspect this thread could get long and interesting. o_O At least for now, I'd like to not try to go past 20121221 in order to avoid systemd. So far I've not found a procedure lending itself to that except to install via http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/gentoo/releases/x86/20121221/ , but the machine doesn't boot USB and only has a CD reader. Neither of those normally matter, since my preferred installation method is HTTP initiated by Grub loading an installation kernel and initrd, but I've yet to locate Gentoo's for that AFAICT, if it even has any such thing. I guess the chroot to untar methodology on https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Installation/Stage obviates any such need? On http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/gentoo/releases/x86/autobuilds/ I don't see anything that looks like a way to get to 20121221 if not already there. Neil Bothwick composed on 2015-08-04 18:44 (UTC+0100): > How did you clone it? It appears parts are missing. I used the word clone a bit loosely. I did rsync -av after a fresh mkfs.ext3. What's missing on clone is missing on source too. Difference in used below I suppose is mostly on account of having already run emerge --sync? Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 396623 256772 119369 69% /disks/boot /dev/sda7 4875929 3410712 1219425 74% /disks/ogentoo /dev/sda29 6501216 3689976 2483516 60% / /dev/sda10 4837465 3365041 1226632 74% /disks/evergreen /dev/sda12 3250579 1302593 1784125 43% /home /dev/sda13 1625241 248895 1294417 17% /usr/local -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
