Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] bootstrap install from hfs partition?

[Stefan Bruda]

At 12:32 -0400 on 2004-8-17 Lincoln Rutledge wrote:
 >
 > This is a thought.  I could install Debian in the swap partition,
 > then put the stage 3 filesystem in the / partition I am currently
 > using.  At that point do I need to put a kernel in my bootstrap
 > partition and boot to it from yaboot?  Or when I do the chroot, is
 > there a Gentoo installer program I can execute to handle setting up
 > bootstrapping and finish the install?

There is no Gentoo install script, you do it all manually.  Once
booted and chrooted into your Gentoo "stage" you have to set
everything up manually and then run the bootstrap script (there is a
script for this one at least) or the emerge commands (as the case may
be depending on what stage you started from).  That's why it does not
matter (within reason) how you boot your system, once chrooted
everything is done in the same manner.

 > >  > This is above my head, but I can sit down with the handbook.
 > > 
 > > Yes, this is very advisable, it is a must in fact, one should read the
 > > handbook before attemtping a Gentoo installation.
 > 
 > I don't see anything regarding what I am attempting here :)

As I was saying above, the Gentoo Handbook applies no matter how you
boot your system.  What I meant is not that there are specific
instructions to install on a live system, but instead that the general
instructions apply with only minor (and in most cases obvious)
changes.  In a nutshell (and following the handbook), you go about it
like this:

o  Section 1 is general information, worth reading.
o  Section 2 obviously does not apply except the general information
   (most of it in 2.a).
o  Section 3 does not apply since you presumably configured your
   network on the Debian side.
o  Section 4 up to but excluding 4.f applies or not depending on
   whether you have the filesystem ready or not, but 4.f goes as
   described.  NOTABLE EXCEPTION: do not rebind /dev or else you risk
   the corruption of Debian-side device nodes (depending on what you
   use on Debian-side for device node management).
o  Section 5 applies as written.
o  From now on everything applies verbatim (except for the use of
   mirrorselect which you don't have).

Essentially you follow the same process no matter whether you booted
from the install CD or from another Linux installation.

Of course, if you use the swap for the temporary Debian you should
postpone the enabling of swap until you boot Gentoo and thus the swap
partition becomes once more available for its primary purpose.

It is worth noting that I saw at some time a note (which I cannot find
anymore) on what to do differently when installing on a live system.
These instructions did not work for me, but the normal flow of
operations from the handbook did.

Stefan

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If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as
it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
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