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Spark
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 Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 7:27 pm Post subject: *cry* |
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Sorry for this, I just need to whine a little while Gnome is still compiling...
I installed Gentoo two days ago for the first time and had a wonderfull desktop. I decided to move it over to my fast partition and wasn't really carefull doing that. I basically expected to erase all my data. At the end I just used "mv" from the installation CD to move my data from one partition to the other and after it really looked like it would blow up everything, It actually worked. I could boot up the new system without any problems and I couldn't believe my luck!
But guess what... There where a a few files left in /oldpart/usr/bin and /oldpart/usr/lib so I decided to move them over with Nautilus. I moved both folders into my /usr directory and it asked me to replace the files. I said yes. Instead of merging the directories it actually deleted my old /usr/bin and /usr/lib dirs and replaced them with the new ones...
If god really exists, he just made fun of me. Bastard.
Now I'm basically rebuilding my whole system, it's all I did the whole day... At least the system was usable again after quickly extracting a new stage3 system from CDROM. Now emerging is a little tricky because it doesn't know about all those missing dependencies of course. :/ |
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ZagiFlyer
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| Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 7:41 pm Post subject: Bleeding Edge |
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There is a reason people refer to the "bleeding edge"  .
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Naan Yaar
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| Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 7:46 pm Post subject: Re: *cry* |
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Not going to help you now, but you may want to look at this:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/partplan.html
when you do it the next time 
BTW, "cp -ax" is your friend. Also, keep the old partition until you're really sure that the new one works!
| Spark wrote: | Sorry for this, I just need to whine a little while Gnome is still compiling...
I installed Gentoo two days ago for the first time and had a wonderfull desktop. I decided to move it over to my fast partition and wasn't really carefull doing that. I basically expected to erase all my data. At the end I just used "mv" from the installation CD to move my data from one partition to the other and after it really looked like it would blow up everything, It actually worked. I could boot up the new system without any problems and I couldn't believe my luck!
But guess what... There where a a few files left in /oldpart/usr/bin and /oldpart/usr/lib so I decided to move them over with Nautilus. I moved both folders into my /usr directory and it asked me to replace the files. I said yes. Instead of merging the directories it actually deleted my old /usr/bin and /usr/lib dirs and replaced them with the new ones...
If god really exists, he just made fun of me. *beep*.
Now I'm basically rebuilding my whole system, it's all I did the whole day... At least the system was usable again after quickly extracting a new stage3 system from CDROM. Now emerging is a little tricky because it doesn't know about all those missing dependencies of course. :/ |
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Spark
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| Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 8:10 pm Post subject: Re: *cry* |
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Funny thing is, I actually read that HOWTO. Naively as I was, I just tried to to it from my running system. It seemed to lock and gave me one unknown error message. I thought I better go into singleuser mode but this gave me the same result so I thought I better don't do it while I'm running a system on this disk and booted from the Gentoo bootdisk, mounted both partitions and tried the same. But the cp (seems to be part of "busybox") doesn't know the -ax param. =) So because I'm lazy, impatient and overall way too optimistic, I just did it with mv. 
That's why I was so surprised that it actually worked so good although it was mostly "try and error".
And then I encounter this stupid Nautilus misbehaviour removing nothing but all my binraries and libs. =)
Gnome is already running again though, I just lost a day to this. Good night.  |
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