As you know, I am collecting unknown malware and send those files to the anti virus laboratories to let them find a way to cure infected machines.

Since some time I was forced to run the malware sorting on my laptop as the server I used to use broke. But you know, a laptop can never replace a server machine.

As I did some migration, I could free a machine to move the malware sorting from the laptop to some server hardware. As the architecture of the laptop and the server are different, we’re pretty lost if we just clone the harddisc.

That’s my way: first, change the make.conf according to the new box (cflags). As this is done, emerge -e system should rebuild the core features of our installation. Now we can clone the harddisc, build a new kernel and boot the cloned machine. After it booted, emerge -e world migrates other binaries we have not touched yet.