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Hi all, |
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I am new to Gentoo, but having made a test install on one of my |
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machines, so far I am impressed. |
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The main reason for my interest in Gentoo was to replace Suse on my |
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server, since it looked promising in the control I have over the |
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installation. |
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My question is this: I want to replace Suse on the server with the |
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minimal amount of server downtime (I won't have time to do a complete |
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installation in one sitting - the Gentoo install I expect to take a |
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number of weeks to set up before it will have the necessary software |
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installed to replace Suse). I also want to ditch one of the drives in |
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that box (I have a 120GB drive which I want to keep, and a 6GB drive |
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which I want to remove). The 6GB drive currently has the Suse |
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installation on it. |
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Here is the current setup: |
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hda - 6GB. |
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hda1 - /boot |
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hda2 - swap |
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hda3 - / |
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hdb1 - /srv |
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hdb2 - /home |
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And my current plan: |
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1) Repartition hdb to add root, swap and boot partition of about 10GB |
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for root (what tools can I use in order to keep the data intact on hdb |
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whilst partitioning?) |
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2) Install Gentoo on the new partition with grub set up to boot from |
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hda and hdb. This way I can run Suse whilst not actively installing |
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Gentoo. |
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3) Once Gentoo is running the necessary software (the minimum is |
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probably ssh, an FTP server, Subversion and apache with mod_python). |
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So far so good. But what is necessary to remove the old drive? The |
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plan is to move the 120GB drive into the hda position. Clearly I will |
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have to edit grub.conf, and fstab, but are there any other things I |
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will need to think about. |
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Cheers, |
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Anthony Roy |
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