On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:17:53 +0200 Florian Philipp wrote: > Neil Bothwick schrieb: ...[snip]... > > 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.
Florian, That would be ideal! It's exactly what I'd do -- if it's doable. Hopefully the experts will point to a HOWTO :-> David -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
