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On 10/30/05, Anthony Roy <antroy@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > You can boot from the suse, repartition the hdb, then chroot, and do |
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> > your gentoo installation. |
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> Excellent - so really I won't even need to have server downtime while |
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> installing? I'll definitely look into this approach. |
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You shouldn't have any downtime during the bootstrap/compilation |
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(depends on which stage you choose). If things go well, the only |
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downtime expected is when you need to physically remove the smaller |
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harddrive, and rewire stuff. |
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Take a look at this guide here: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml, the "Installing Gentoo |
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from an existing Linux distribution" section could be helpful. |
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HTH. |
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-- Joe |
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