Installing Gentoo from a custom made tar

maiku

I'm pretty much just building systems with the same motherboards and the same specs. So I thought I'd just tar up one system and load another with it. I tared up one system and deployedit on a blank HDD, set the boot and kernel up. The system booted but eth0 because eth2 and portage wanted to "auto-clean" 5 base packages. When I emerge -vuD --newuse world it installs the new updates but then uninstalls major packages and then breaks my system.

What did I do wrong?
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poly_poly-man · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 3:08 am Post subject:

Remember that two systems are never the same - think of the MAC addresses, for one.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Custom_Stage4

should help, I think that's what you want.

poly-p man
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padoor · Advocate Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 4185 Location: india

kernel made for one system may not work for another even if the motherboard is same.
after emerging a package unmerging major packages seems to be trouble with world file in the tar ball.
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nixnut · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 3:36 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Other Things Gentoo.

regarding eth0 becoming eth2: look in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. If you copy that file from one system to another udev will see unknown mac addresses for your nic and assign a new ethX device to it. Removing the file will resolve the issue.
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