Neil Bothwick schrieb:
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:38:36 -0400, David Relson wrote:
>
>> I recall installing Gentoo as being a P.I.T.A, hence take no pleasure
>> in the idea of re-installing. I was hoping for something relatively
>> simple, like
>> changing CHOST and emerging world
>> unpacking amd64 stage3 tarball on top of root
>> or something else
>
> Unpacking a stage 3 tarball on top of a working system is a good way of
> converting it to a non-working system. It will also overwrite many of
> your settings in /etc.
>
> If you are going to use a stage 3 tarball as a basis, a clean stage 3
> install is by far the safest option, and usually turns out to be the
> quickest too. Backup /etc and your world file first, use your old
> make.conf as a starting point and recreate your old environment on the
> new hardware with
>
> emerge -1av $(cat oldworld)
>
>
Just a thought: Is it possible to compile a 64bit kernel and use him on
the current system? That way you could set up your new native 64bit
system in a chroot before overwriting the old one and thus minimize
downtime to less than 15 minutes.
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