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On the fine day of Mon, 04 Oct 2004 21:50:00 -0400 |
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Jean-Sébastien Guay <jean_seb@×××××××××.ca> said very eloquently: |
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> I have an Alpha XL currently running Debian. I would like to see how |
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> Gentoo works on it, but I would especially like to have the option to |
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> back out and go back to my running system if it doesn't work (or I |
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> don't like it, though I doubt that frankly). |
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You can do a drive image as someone else already commented. What works |
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really well for me is to use an extra partition or hard drive for the |
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secondary OS that you are trying out. That way you never are overwriting |
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your main OS so you don't have to worry about losing it. And you can |
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jump back to your normal configuration by just booting into that |
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partition instead. |
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I always try and remember when partioning a disk to leave an empty 3-4 |
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gig partition for this purpose. It really comes in handy. |
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Also if you do things this way it's also possible to install gentoo from |
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the other OS (using chroot), so you always have access to the web, etc. |
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while you are building the gentoo system. Then your main system |
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is not down for any long length of time. There's some documentation |
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about this on gentoo's site; I believe it's in the"alternative |
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installation howto". |
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I just went through this with rebuilding my Alpha gentoo installation. |
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If you want any more details let me know. |
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> Also, somewhat unrelated -- How does Gentoo handle configuration |
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> files? |
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There's an app that let's you interactively merge the changes. It's not |
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fancy (it's just text based) but it sounds more flexible than |
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what you are talking about with debian. |
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