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On 08 Apr 2002 21:39:20 +0200 |
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Erik Grinaker <erikg@××××××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 21:17, Thilo Bangert wrote: |
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> > well - this has come up pretty often lately.... |
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> > I can't use the gentoo boot cd - is there any other |
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> > way... |
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> Hmmm... I've just experienced the joys of completely reinstalling a |
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> server while it was actually running. That is, I installed gentoo on |
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> it while I had the RedHat installation running - and just replaced |
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> the services from the RedHat system with those from the Gentoo |
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> chroot one by one until everything ran from the Gentoo installation. |
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> I then did a quick reboot and had a fully functional Gentoo |
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> replacement system running. Downtime was two minutes. |
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great - i plan on doing this myself. |
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good to hear somebody already accomplished this... |
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(amazing downtime!) |
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> I can also contribute with maybe a bootdisk/netinstall and even a |
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> more automated installation process for people not really knowing |
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> what they are doing - if there is any interest for it |
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i've said this before: i wouldn't want to make it too easy for |
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people - thats what made gentoo really fun |
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yes, a steep learning curve will scare some people away, but it will |
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make tech support much more easy (in the long) |
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(perhaps this is all wrong, because then people just start |
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doing new stuff...) |
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also, gentoo is constantly under (more or less) heavy development |
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(getting better every day). brave newbies have no problem dealing |
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with that, but they can handle heavy documentation as well... |
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i don't want to kill your attempt on doing something good - i just |
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personally feel we should not lower the high standards (in terms |
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of dificulty or "heaviness") of the gentoo documentation |
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a dedicated gentoo floppy bootdisc really sounds like a good idea |
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just my 2 cents |
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regards |
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Thilo |