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zarick
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 Posted: Mon May 12, 2003 6:46 pm Post subject: Installing from an existing RH system |
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After I have installed / configured my first gentoo, I love it 
Now, I'm going to install it to my server, but this time, I can't use the liveCd to install, as my (home) server is working, I don't want it to offline too long. Hence I'd like to install from an exisiting setup.
However, I don't find any info for this kind of setup...
IMO, is it possible to do so?
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1. mkdir /mnt/gentoo
2. mount the partition to /mnt/gentoo
3. mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
4. mount the partition to /mnt/gentoo/boot
5. cd /mnt/gentoo
6. tar xjpvf /somewhere/stage1.*bz
7. mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
8. cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/
9. chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
10. env-update
11. source /etc/profile
...... and following the remaining step in the installation guide.
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If I haven't anything missed, after configuring grub, and reboot,
I will change my existing RH system to Gentoo, right?
At this point, I still have a small question, in my present config,
My current configuration has used up nearly all the partition, among them,
I have one /boot, /var, /tmp, etc.
Is it ok to mount --bind these dirs to /mnt/gentoo/..., and then chroot.
Or there is any other better method for my situation? |
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jlg
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2003 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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Do you want to dual boot gentoo with redhat or completly erase redhat.
I'm under the impression that you want to completly erase and replace with gentoo with the minimal down time.
If so you would be better to setup a gentoo on a similar system than make an image and apply over your server. |
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abysed
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2003 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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I'm interested in this too (well actually, my friend is).. He currently has a trashed redhat box and I'm trying to get him to put gentoo on it. We're about to try using a slackware boot disk (bare.i) to get to the cd, but other than that, the cd-rom drive isn't able to boot off of cds, and this is the only box of its type (P166, 2Gb HD+1Gb HD) at his house.
I don't see how it would be possible to chroot into itself, while wiping the redhat junk. |
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zarick
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Right, my intention is to use Gentoo to replace my RH completely.
But just wonder what is the most elegant way to do so.
As I would, to install Gentoo, from stage1, my pretty old box is using K6-2 300, with ~512M. If I just shutdown and boot with LiveCD (the most common way), the turnover time will be extremely long.
That is not affordable  |
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nerdbert
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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if you have a spare partition installation is quite easy. You don't need a livecd - just grab a tarball with wget.
You shouldn't experience any problems if you do it the way you described yourself.
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nerdbert
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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if you have a spare partition installation is quite easy. You don't need a livecd - just grab a tarball with wget.
You shouldn't experience any problems if you do it the way you described yourself.
[edit] oops, the forum is kinda slow today and I hit the submit button more than once... sorry |
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jlg
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 4:24 am Post subject: |
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nerbert ! you know you can actually delete your posts. So you can delete a double  |
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zarick
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 4:33 am Post subject: |
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That's great!
Thanks very much!! |
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nerdbert
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 7:21 am Post subject: |
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| jlg wrote: | | nerbert ! you know you can actually delete your posts. So you can delete a double |
tell me how and I'll do it |
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jlg
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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there should be a delete button on the upper right corner of your post!
uhm! I'm not sure but that may just apply to your last post. So you probably have to delete a dub just after posting it. |
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nerdbert
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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| jlg wrote: | there should be a delete button on the upper right corner of your post!
uhm! I'm not sure but that may just apply to your last post. So you probably have to delete a dub just after posting it. |
ok, look at my post count and then try to think of me not knowing what this tiny "X" means... 
thanks for pointing me into the right direction, but it's too late now (in this case). |
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jlg
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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| well look at my joined date and I noticed that not too long ago LOL!! |
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