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Currently, one can download the iso, or if one has two partitions, boot into |
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one and mount the other and untar sys.tbz2. This is great. |
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However, if I want to replace a fully-partitioned system which is already |
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running Linux with the tarball, I can't. Well, I could, but there would be |
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cruft from the old install. |
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What would be neat is a script that could be run, and it would create a small |
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temporary bin dir with enough utilities within to cp sys.tbz2 into itself, |
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then rm -rf what you have and pour sys.tbz2 into it. Then remove itself. |
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Yes, if something goes wrong you are in a world of hurt, but it would be nice |
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to have as an option. It's a feature I won't care about when rc4 comes out, |
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but since I have scsi drives on one system and a k6 on the other, I haven't |
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been able to install Gentoo yet. I think this could be useful for other |
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situations where it would be a nasty job to hack the .iso to include whatever |
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you need to get Gentoo running on your unique and problematic system, but |
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just adding something to the tarball would be a breeze. |
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Well, just a suggestion. |
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--Gabriel |