what is the best way to do a fresh install

MonkeyMartin · Apprentice Joined: 19 Mar 2003 Posts: 272 Location: Canada

I have a working gentoo machine

i what to do a new install to clean things up

all my saved files are on another partition

I heard that you can install gentoo from a working machine

what is the best way to do a fresh install
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John5788 · Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 7:06 am Post subject:

there is no best way. its just up to u how u want to do it.
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active · Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 9:32 pm Post subject:

Best way? Format + new build
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Lajasha · Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 9:42 pm Post subject:

Simplest way would prolly be just to do a normal reinstall since you are already familiar with it, if that is how you did it the first time that is.
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LeTene · Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 9:56 pm Post subject:

If you have yet another free partition, you could install on that (in a chrooted environment) and easily boot to that with the right GRUB configuring. You'd also have the added safety net of keeping your old installation about for a bit.
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