| 1 |
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 21:17, Thilo Bangert wrote: |
| 2 |
|
| 3 |
> well - this has come up pretty often lately.... |
| 4 |
> |
| 5 |
> I can't use the gentoo boot cd - is there any other way... |
| 6 |
|
| 7 |
Hmmm... I've just experienced the joys of completely reinstalling a |
| 8 |
server while it was actually running. That is, I installed gentoo on it |
| 9 |
while I had the RedHat installation running - and just replaced the |
| 10 |
services from the RedHat system with those from the Gentoo chroot one by |
| 11 |
one until everything ran from the Gentoo installation. I then did a |
| 12 |
quick reboot and had a fully functional Gentoo replacement system |
| 13 |
running. Downtime was two minutes. |
| 14 |
|
| 15 |
I think that things like these are worth bringing to people's attention. |
| 16 |
I can (probably - if I find a bit of extra time) start writing a guide |
| 17 |
on alternate installation methods if you think it's a good idea. |
| 18 |
|
| 19 |
I can also contribute with maybe a bootdisk/netinstall and even a more |
| 20 |
automated installation process for people not really knowing what they |
| 21 |
are doing - if there is any interest for it |
| 22 |
|
| 23 |
|
| 24 |
-- |
| 25 |
|
| 26 |
Erik Grinaker |
| 27 |
Freelance UNIX/Linux systems consultant |
| 28 |
|
| 29 |
"Perfection is acheived not when there is nothing more to add, but |
| 30 |
rather when there is nothing more to take away" |
| 31 |
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
Archives