Weird Question - What would happen if I extracted a Stage3..

Iron_DragonLord · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2004 Posts: 273

What would happen if I extracted a stage 3 tarball into my / on a currently installed Gentoo system, not from a LiveCD...

I know it sounds weird but I want to redo my system yet I don't want to insert a LiveCD for large complicated reasons.

adaptr · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 11:32 am Post subject:

Every file in the tarball that you have modified would be overwritten by default; you can change this behaviour with tar options.
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nixnut · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 1:52 pm Post subject:

If you have enough free space (>3GB, preferably more), consider creating a directory (or partition) in which to build the new system, chroot into that directory and do the installation in there.
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