Re: [MiNT] Update Sparemint system with Gentoo - how?

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On 12/26/11 12:13, m0n0 wrote:
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> Am Montag, den 26.12.2011, 03:10 +0100 schrieb WongCK
> <wongck68@yahoo.com>:
>
>>
>> Thanks for the install guide doc.
>> Seems quite easy to install. I will see if I can do it by next
>> year... LOL
>> Serious... it needs 2 GB !! wow.... my current ext2 fs is only 2 GB. 
>> I do not like to have it too large as any fsck needed will take some
>> time.
>>
>> I plan to have a spin on another spare hdd. Will see how it goes.
>
> I've installed gentoo MiNT on an aranym setup. Install plain mint +
> commandline shell, untar / ungzip
> the package to the root partition, reboot and your done - at least
> that works when you have an clean system
> where no present software get's overwritten.
>
> Not all software was running clean. Maybe an problem with aranym, but
> I doubt that. For example python crashed.

Python crashing is pretty severe as gentoo's portage system relies on
it. I think I'd of noticed that by now.

Alan.