On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:44:43AM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > The easiest thing to do would be to migrate system, P2V, as is. I dont' > know what virtual server software you are using, but there are tools to > do this (plus with Linux it's easy enough doing manually). > > Aside from that if you actually want to re-build the box from scratch, > I'd copy the /etc/make.conf, /etc/portage/* and /var/lib/portage/world > file over and, after performing a stageX install, do a "emerge -va `cat > world`"
I am migrating from an amd64 based colo server to a linode system that is not amd64, so I don't think most of the automated methods would work, although I could be wrong... -- Matthew Daubenspeck http://oddprocess.org Gentoo Linux x86_64 Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 165 11:47:52 up 273 days, 2:35, 4 users, load average: 0.09, 0.03, 0.01
