Remote Instalation of Gentoo

Shedoks · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 60 Location: Serbia

Hi. Does anyone have an idea how to do this.
I have two problem.
The 1st is that i can´t aproach to this comp becouse he is on the roof (host ap 4 wireless)
and the 2nd is on that machine is only one partition with slack on it.

thanks

GordSki · Guru Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 329

If you have space on your slackware partition, you could use 'parted' or something similar to shrink it and create a new partition you can do the base gentoo install onto then reclaim the slackware space.

G.

Shedoks · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 60 Location: Serbia

well someone told me that parted could do damage to slack

nixnut · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:29 pm Post subject:

In such cases the advice is: "If if ain't broken, don't fix it"
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Treborius · Guru Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Berlin

if u have a swap partion, make a minimal gentoo install on it, then continue
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Shedoks · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 60 Location: Serbia

thanks