I just boot with a gentoo CD, tar up my entire system, and untar it on the new system. If your new system boots with the gentoo CD as well, then you can pipe this over ssh. Something like the following...
cd /mnt/gentoo tar -cz ./ | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cd /mnt/gentoo; tar -xz' I personally actually just use an external HD, that I'm building gentoo on. My primary box has it's portage on the external HD, and I'm trying to install all the packages i need on it. So, if I need a new system, I just copy the entire gentoo system off the external HD, to a new system, and then change configs. On 1/5/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Some time ago, I copied a world file (/var/lib/portage/world) > from a system with lots of installed software to a 'clone' > system newly installed with gentoo.... > > Now 'emaint --check world' suggests that not all of those packages have > been installed. (Busted). I was not responsible enough to verify > that the clone was 100% similar with the identical ebuilds. > I thought I had found a way to duplicate the installed software, > merely by copying the world file from another system. > > Any better ideas on how to duplicate gentoo systems, > with the installed list of ebuilds matching? > > thoughts and ideas? > > James > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
