Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo on temporary partition.

2003-11-25 Thread Paul Varner
Tom Eastman wrote: I'm about to install gentoo on a temporary partition on my P4 box. The installation, when done, will be transfered to my pentium 3 and I'll do the final bootloader/misc setup stuff that can only be done on the real box. How do people recommend I transfer the completed

[gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo on temporary partition.

2003-11-24 Thread Tom Eastman
I'm about to install gentoo on a temporary partition on my P4 box. The installation, when done, will be transfered to my pentium 3 and I'll do the final bootloader/misc setup stuff that can only be done on the real box. How do people recommend I transfer the completed gentoo installation to

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo on temporary partition.

2003-11-24 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Tom Eastman -- Can anyone see any other potential tripfalls I haven't thought of? I *think* you could use rsync, but look at man rsync before for right command line switches. I guess you can ignore /dev and /proc. Don't forget to compile with the right gcc options in

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo on temporary partition.

2003-11-24 Thread eric
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:35:43AM +1300, Tom Eastman wrote: What kind of options would I have to provide to ensure that all the permissions/ownerships are set correctly? I've used rsync and Gentoo LiveCDs to transfer entire installs across my SUN boxes: 1: Boot LiveCD on target