stripping gentoo

igor92128 · Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 9:38 pm Post subject: stripping gentoo

I was wondering if there is a command that I can use to strip down Gentoo and basically start from the beginning -- how it was when I first installed it. The problem is the SSH and TFTP aren't working and they were working before, so maybe I emerged something that somehow conlicts with the daemons. 'emerge -C world' doesnt work BTW.

scoon · Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 9:58 pm Post subject: Re: stripping gentoo

igor92128 · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 4:44 pm Post subject:

Well I now got ssh to work, but something is wrong with tftp. To start the tftp server, you need to run /etc/init.d/in.tftpd start
right?
Well, when I try to start it, I see 2 red !! and that's all, it wont start. I need it because I want to netboot a sparc, and it hangs on bootup...probably because of this.

hadfield · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 9:55 pm Post subject:

Well as far as stripping down your system, I've done this a couple times and all I used was the qpkg app. It comes with the gentoolkit. It allows you to view all of the packages installed on your machine. So generally I just look at the list, if there's something I don't think I need I run qpkg --query-deps to see if anything depends on it.

As for your tftp problem. The runlevel system, although very useful, is not very useful when it comes to error messages. Try starting the app yourself. Look into the /etc/init.d/in.tftpd file and see what commands are being run. You'll notice that it uses start-stop-daemon to start and stop tftpd. But you can also start it by hand with:

igor92128 · Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 1:53 am Post subject:

well I tried that command and absolutely nothing appears. I also tried to zap it and start it afterwards, but still nothing.