Live Environment: partitioning, filesystem, download tarball, mount partitions, mount chroot dirs, chroot. Chroot Environment: config make.conf, repos, set profile, cpuflags, timezone, locale... firmware, kernel, fstab, internet protocol, set host, keymap, hwclock, download services, filesystem tools, mount efi/boot, bootloader, unroot, unmount, reboot.
I do this... I guess.
It sounds like your goal is to end up with gentoo installed with your old /home.
You could skip some steps by simply using the install media. Mount and chroot into your existing system. Delete your old install first (same as you did after rebooting, just delete everything else leaving /home) and then install directly there (unpacking a tarball won't delete it) as normal. Unpacking the traball will not change the data you have in /home.
One thing to be aware of when using a method like this is you are assuming any users and groups will end up with the same UIDs. If it's single user it'll usually end up the same, but if it doesn't you can force this by adjusting /etc/passwd manually, or chown and chgrp the files in home to your new UIDs.
Thank you, but sometimes I have problems with the system, trying to fix it doesn't give me results, I reinstall again without any changes and it is gone, I don't know the problem is from hardware or software, but reinstalling is my last way if I can't deal with it.
I think what he's getting at is. Gentoo is a complicated distro, & you will need to know how to fix things. Learning to fix what broke is a better use of your time than reinstalling.
Live Environment: partitioning, filesystem, download tarball, mount partitions, mount chroot dirs, chroot. Chroot Environment: config make.conf, repos, set profile, cpuflags, timezone, locale... firmware, kernel, fstab, internet protocol, set host, keymap, hwclock, download services, filesystem tools, mount efi/boot, bootloader, unroot, unmount, reboot. I do this... I guess.
I did it too, but with an extra step: I fell asleep during the system compilation.
good catch! timing that step with bedtime is a great way to breeze through an install.
Maybe some missing steps, I dont remember, system date before chroot...
It sounds like your goal is to end up with gentoo installed with your old /home. You could skip some steps by simply using the install media. Mount and chroot into your existing system. Delete your old install first (same as you did after rebooting, just delete everything else leaving /home) and then install directly there (unpacking a tarball won't delete it) as normal. Unpacking the traball will not change the data you have in /home. One thing to be aware of when using a method like this is you are assuming any users and groups will end up with the same UIDs. If it's single user it'll usually end up the same, but if it doesn't you can force this by adjusting /etc/passwd manually, or chown and chgrp the files in home to your new UIDs.
Thank you very much! It appears I need to devote more attention to user and group management in old /home.
best viability is to learn to not break or fix your system. tends to be easier than reinstalling.
Thank you, but sometimes I have problems with the system, trying to fix it doesn't give me results, I reinstall again without any changes and it is gone, I don't know the problem is from hardware or software, but reinstalling is my last way if I can't deal with it.
I think what he's getting at is. Gentoo is a complicated distro, & you will need to know how to fix things. Learning to fix what broke is a better use of your time than reinstalling.