Can I build 1.4 from an already running 1.2 system?

ol · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2002 Posts: 3 Location: UK

Interestingly, the 1.4 upgrade has come at roughly the same time as me running out of disk space on one of the disks in my existing Gentoo system. I was wondering if I could create a mountpoint and mount the new disk somewhere, and build from stage 1 a 1.4 system (preferably without rebooting... the disk is already in, and the machine serves as a network gateway)

As far as I can tell, I should be able to skip the network setup proceedure and continue as in the install guide, but I thought I'd better check with some people who may have tried something like this before.

I don't want to clone the existing system, because I've spent time working on what packages I want running on it (very few

) and the old system has lots of parts of packages left lying around. I also want to rebuild the existing system with as little network disruption as possible, so I think this would be the best way to go about it.

Any suggestions?

pilla · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 12:48 pm Post subject:

Yes, see this and this.

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ol · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2002 Posts: 3 Location: UK

So those were of no use... I'm not upgrading, I'm rebuilding on a new disk from scratch where the machine is already running a version of Gentoo (because said disk is being transferred to my other system to be rebuild as a desktop version, rather than a server/gateway)

I take it no-ones actually tried it, so when I work my way through I'll tack notes onto here... I wish I had taken the network down now though, but I'd only have to handle people moaning at me instead of it taking ages to download stuff

pilla · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 5:59 pm Post subject:

Yes, it is what Rac's manual teaches.

rac · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 6:10 pm Post subject:

ol · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2002 Posts: 3 Location: UK

OK, I'm an idiot... I must have read something wrong. I'm up to 12 currently, and I'm probably going to skip 14 (all new packages to suit the purpose)

At this point I'm wishing I could use the existing gcc32, but now that I've started bootstrap I'll just have to suffer it as is

amittp · Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 7:05 pm Post subject: Did exactly same

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=5384

Do exactly as above,, i enjoyed building my new syetem with renewed partitions (on diff hdd) While i was still working with the existing gentoo

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