Gentoo from OpenVZ-2008.11 template

Bastian82 · n00b Joined: 07 Feb 2011 Posts: 45 Location: Poznań

Hi guys,

Im willing to have Gentoo server on OpenVZ. I took gentoo-2008.11 template from my HyperVM panel. And all sort of troubles begins.. As you see this is quite old template and i wish to bring the system to normal usability level, but im lack of expierience with OpenVZ and Gentoo together. First of all i need to download portage tree and unpack it to /usr but it has to be old portage tree right? If i use newest one i will have problems with installing anything, and i cant install even python to move forward with maintaince.

I would like to ask you guys, can you point me on what steps should i do to bring this system to normal and updated? Or maybe you have a some tutorial for noob on it?

What i tried so far is:

1. i made a list od content find / -mount /home/listprevous.txt
2. I downloaded newest stage3 and i unpacked it to /tmp
3 cp -r /tmp/usr / && cp -r /tmp/lib / but copying lib failed (segmentation fault)

I stoped here becouse it obviously wont work, anyway next steps i was planning:

4. find / -mount /home/listafter.txt
5. Compare listprevious.txt and listafert.txt to find differences and delete them
6. Download newest portage tree and unpack it
7. Have a working system

But as i said i cant overwrite /lib on a working system and as it is OpenVZ i cant chroot it. So i would be thanksful for any tips how to deal with this problem.

Thanks,
Bastian

gkmac · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:53 pm Post subject:

More up to date templates can be found at http://azabani.com/gentoovz/ the latest one from August this year. There's also a link to the script that is used to generate them.

Please note that I have not tested these templates myself.

EDIT: The webpage I linked to appears to have disappeared...
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Bastian82 · n00b Joined: 07 Feb 2011 Posts: 45 Location: Poznań

gkmac: thanks mate, i was somewhere around it today, but i thought this script is not done yet. First of all i will try preapred template, if it wont work then i will try to do some magic using this script.

I will inform you about results.

jormartr · Apprentice Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 174

Use the information on the OpenVZ site wiki, about Gentoo template creation, build it on a chroot, for example, tar it and it's done.

Bastian82 · n00b Joined: 07 Feb 2011 Posts: 45 Location: Poznań

Unfortunatly, template from http://azabani.com/gentoovz/ doesnt work, i can't start the server. Admin will provide me some logs soon. I can try do my own using this script but first i will wait till the Admin will have a look in logs.

jormartr: Delan Azabani wrote on his site that this tutorial is outdated it doesnt support baselayout-2