emerging all from other distro?

tnt · Veteran Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 1222

i started installing gentoo from my original distro (madrake) and when it was needed i mounted partitions, /proc, /dev and chrooted, env-update, source /etc/profile... and so on.
went through bootstraping, emerged system, compiled kernel and succesfuly booted gentoo.

can i go on with my emefges (of X, kde, mozilla...) from chrooted environment (after mounting all needed stuf and env-update...) just as i did "emerge system" and "emerge sources-getnoo" or i HAVE TO do that from getnoo?

i'm asking this because i can not do anything in my gentoo yet, and in mandrake i can surf and do all other things while emerging software for gentoo...

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ectospasm · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 5:17 am Post subject:

That's a strange way of doing it, but I see no reason for it not to work. Just make sure that Mandrake doesn't try to write to your newly forming Gentoo partition(s), and everything should be good.
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tnt · Veteran Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 1222

mandrake has nothing to do with that partition - it resides in /mnt/gentoo and only access is made by chrooted console. mandrak is fully operational and emerging X and KDE is done in background while i'm able to do everyday work. if i emerge from newly installed gentoo, i wouldn't be able to do anything meanwhile because there's no X and no KDE at all...

ectospasm · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 6:02 am Post subject:

Here, read this section of the Install Guide (Choosing an Installation Medium):

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1&chap=2#doc_chap2_sect8
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