System for PIII now lives in K7; any way to rebuild without full reinstall?

Howdy folks.  Today I have a fun exercise but am short on
ideas.  Any
suggestions?  

I have an old hard drive from my router, a Pentium III.  Now
i've gone
and put that hard drive in an Athlon-based machine, which
doesn't
support the P-III instruction set completely.  

The computer boots and the kernel runs just fine, but many
of the
programs do not work.  The biggest thorn in my side is
emerge not
working; therefore, I can't fix the problem with a simle
empty-tree
emerge.  

I am considering doing a full reinstall.  But, I don't want
to be
bothered.  

What do you all think of the idea of extracting a stage3
onto an
existing installation?  Is there any way this could yield a
set of
utilities (namely python or emerge, whichever isn't working
now) enough
so that I could successfully issue an 'emerge -e world' ?

Thanks for your time and suggestions,
	Dan Farrell 
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Dan Farrell wrote:
> Howdy folks.  Today I have a fun exercise but am short
on ideas.  Any
> suggestions?  
>
> I have an old hard drive from my router, a Pentium III.
 Now i've gone
> and put that hard drive in an Athlon-based machine,
which doesn't
> support the P-III instruction set completely.  
>
> The computer boots and the kernel runs just fine, but
many of the
> programs do not work.  The biggest thorn in my side is
emerge not
> working; therefore, I can't fix the problem with a
simle empty-tree
> emerge.  
>
> I am considering doing a full reinstall.  But, I don't
want to be
> bothered.  
>
> What do you all think of the idea of extracting a
stage3 onto an
> existing installation?  Is there any way this could
yield a set of
> utilities (namely python or emerge, whichever isn't
working now) enough
> so that I could successfully issue an 'emerge -e world'
?
>
> Thanks for your time and suggestions,
> 	Dan Farrell 
>   


There is a portage rescue method.  Here is the info for ya:

> Please see
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/m
anually-fixing-portage.xml
> for a recovery guide for a broken portage
installation.

Then you should be able to adjust make.conf and emerge the
whole world.

I hope that helps.

Dale

   

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On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:31:33 -0500
Dale <dalek1967bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Dan Farrell wrote:
> > Howdy folks.  Today I have a fun exercise but am
short on ideas.
> > Any suggestions?  
> >
> > I have an old hard drive from my router, a Pentium
III.  Now i've
> > gone and put that hard drive in an Athlon-based
machine, which
> > doesn't support the P-III instruction set
completely.  
> >
> > The computer boots and the kernel runs just fine,
but many of the
> > programs do not work.  The biggest thorn in my
side is emerge not
> > working; therefore, I can't fix the problem with a
simle empty-tree
> > emerge.  
> >
> > I am considering doing a full reinstall.  But, I
don't want to be
> > bothered.  
> >
> > What do you all think of the idea of extracting a
stage3 onto an
> > existing installation?  Is there any way this
could yield a set of
> > utilities (namely python or emerge, whichever
isn't working now)
> > enough so that I could successfully issue an
'emerge -e world' ?
> >
> > Thanks for your time and suggestions,
> > 	Dan Farrell 
> >   
> 
> 
> There is a portage rescue method.  Here is the info for
ya:
> 
> > Please see
> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/m
anually-fixing-portage.xml
> > for a recovery guide for a broken portage
installation.
> 
> Then you should be able to adjust make.conf and emerge
the whole
> world.
> 
> I hope that helps.
> 
> Dale
> 
>  
 
> 
Thanks Dale, I'm sure it will help. 

		- Dan
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On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:31:33 -0500
Dale <dalek1967bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Dan Farrell wrote:
> > Howdy folks.  Today I have a fun exercise but am
short on ideas.
> > Any suggestions?  
> >
> > I have an old hard drive from my router, a Pentium
III.  Now i've
> > gone and put that hard drive in an Athlon-based
machine, which
> > doesn't support the P-III instruction set
completely.  
> >
> > The computer boots and the kernel runs just fine,
but many of the
> > programs do not work.  The biggest thorn in my
side is emerge not
> > working; therefore, I can't fix the problem with a
simle empty-tree
> > emerge.  
> >
> > I am considering doing a full reinstall.  But, I
don't want to be
> > bothered.  
> >
> > What do you all think of the idea of extracting a
stage3 onto an
> > existing installation?  Is there any way this
could yield a set of
> > utilities (namely python or emerge, whichever
isn't working now)
> > enough so that I could successfully issue an
'emerge -e world' ?
> >
> > Thanks for your time and suggestions,
> > 	Dan Farrell 
> >   
> 
> 
> There is a portage rescue method.  Here is the info for
ya:
> 
> > Please see
> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/m
anually-fixing-portage.xml
> > for a recovery guide for a broken portage
installation.
> 
> Then you should be able to adjust make.conf and emerge
the whole
> world.
> 
> I hope that helps.
> 
> Dale
> 
>  
 
> 
Interestingly enough, that didn't work.  I ended up
untarring a stage
three onto the hard drive and going from there.  It would
have worked
really well if I had bothered to protect my portage world
files and
such.  As it is I think I'll have to rebuild a lot of stuff
over again,
in that it seems I installed a stage3-fresh world package
listing over
my old one.  Oh well, it was an entirely different system
anyway, and
this old system was 3+ years old, so it was probably about
time for a
rebuild anyway.  
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