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My problem is that I don't have an existing system to use. This is a new |
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box totally. |
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Wayne |
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>I did part of the 1.0--rc6-r11 install by booting to a second drive, |
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>dialing up with ppp (since the cd had no ppp support) and chrooting to the |
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>gentoo drive. |
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>So long as you have a kernel that has all the capabilities you need on |
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>another drive, you can format the gentoo drives, copy over the base from |
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>the gentoo cd, and chroot to the gentoo disks to complete the install. |
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>I am no expert here, but from the way my install went, I dont think I ever |
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>really _had_ to boot from the cd since I had a debian system (and a boot |
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>disk for it) on my second drive. |
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>HTH, |
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>-Tom |
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