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Hi Anthony, |
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on Sunday, 2005-10-30 at 16:06:47, you wrote: |
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> The main reason for my interest in Gentoo was to replace Suse on my |
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> server, since it looked promising in the control I have over the |
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> installation. |
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> |
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> My question is this: I want to replace Suse on the server with the |
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> minimal amount of server downtime (I won't have time to do a complete |
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> installation in one sitting - the Gentoo install I expect to take a |
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> number of weeks to set up before it will have the necessary software |
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> installed to replace Suse). |
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I'm just in the process of doing the same thing. As quite a few thing |
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will usually need tweaking when configfiles move and things don't quite |
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work the way you're used to, I set up a separate machine to install the |
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whole thing. Configured the kernel for the server hardware already, |
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installed all I need, and currently it's being tested. When it's done, |
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I'll copy the whole HD over, change a few /etc entries and do stuff like |
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activating the DHCP server that I can't do on the test machine yet, and |
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it should be up and running. If you can afford to set another machine |
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aside for a while, that will probably minimize your downtime. |
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regards |
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Matthias |
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