PiotrAF wrote:
> On Tue, 04 May 2004 23:11:30 +0100, adam mcmaster wrote:
>
>
>>On Tue, 04 May 2004 09:04:03 +0200, PiotrAF wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I'm just a newbie, but IMHO you should either prepare the system on
>>>another system ...
>>
>>That's what I'd suggest - find yourself a machine with a newer system on
>>it and compile Gentoo on there. You can either transfer the whole
>>filesystem to the server after you're done, or specify buildpkg in
>>make.conf before you start and install from the binary packages.
>
>
> Unless, since Gentoo 1.4 (~summer, last year), this was fixed, I wouldn't
> suggest that - it was impossible to do that i.e. of course 'emerge -b' was
> possible and 'emerge -k' as well, but only few packages where in fact
> emerged making the system totally unusuable due to the missing dependecies

I guess people have forgotten about good old tar.

1. Prepare the Gentoo installation on another computer (making sure the
kernel has all modules required for *both* computers),
2. tar the partitions, and
3. Then untar to the server (either from the network or tape backup.)

Don't forget compression if you need/want it.

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Ben M.