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JanErik
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 Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2003 8:37 am Post subject: Creating CDs for networkless install |
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I will be on a 56k modem all summer, and would like to create some emergency-reinstallation cdrw:s if something happened to my installation or disk.
The cd:s would contain everything I need to install Gentoo, do a full bootstrap and install most I already have.
Could I just gzip my portage tree and then unpack it onto the new installation? Instead of syncing?
I was thinking of downloading all installed packages, with the "fetchonly" option. How do I get a listing of all installed packages? Will also the packages required by the bootstrap process be listed? |
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idoneus
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2003 8:45 am Post subject: Re: Creating CDs for networkless install |
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| Finnish wrote: | | Could I just gzip my portage tree and then unpack it onto the new installation? Instead of syncing? |
sure, portage will only try to connect to the outside if a package is missing.
| Finnish wrote: | | I was thinking of downloading all installed packages, with the "fetchonly" option. How do I get a listing of all installed packages? Will also the packages required by the bootstrap process be listed? |
If you never deleted your distfiles directory you should actually still have all source code you ever installed.
You could then do a emerge -f world and you would even have all sources for the update of your system, thus a new install would get newer sources then are installed on your system. |
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barlad
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2003 9:13 am Post subject: |
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to see all that is currently installed, you can do
If you already deleted your distfiles, you can grab all of it with a
That will download EVERYTHING, from gcc to your latest tool. |
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JanErik
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2003 9:51 am Post subject: |
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| Ok, that seems simple enough. No, I don´t have any source left on disk, it tends to grow a bit large. |
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JanErik
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One more thing... where is the information about installed packages stored?
I mean, if/when I reinstall, I want the package status to read "N"(new), not "R"(reinstall), or "U"(update).
Is this data stored somewhere under /usr/portage? |
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Jimbow
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Finnish wrote: | One more thing... where is the information about installed packages stored?
I mean, if/when I reinstall, I want the package status to read "N"(new), not "R"(reinstall), or "U"(update).
Is this data stored somewhere under /usr/portage? |
That information is under /var/db/pkg.
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