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On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@×××××.at> wrote: |
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> I plan to install a fresh gentoo linux in parallel to an existing SLES |
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> 10 server. |
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> The server runs with /boot and / on 2 raid1 devices, there is a large |
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> RAID6 array building the PV for several logical volumes with data on it. |
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> The idea is to have the server booted from live media (chroot does not |
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> work as the current kernel of SLES is too old [1] ) ... install the new |
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> gentoo-root into a new LV, set up dracut for an LVM-based root and place |
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> the new kernel and initrd into the existing /boot (with old grub currently). |
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You should be able to get away with not using a livecd: you don't |
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really need to chroot to get an initial Gentoo system working, |
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*especially if you have console access*. |
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Some pointers: |
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- Unpack your stage tarball. |
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- Build the kernel and initramfs on an existing Gentoo system and copy |
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them over. |
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- Add the gentoo kernel and initramfs to menu.lst. |
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- Clear out the root password in /etc/shadow. |
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- Reboot the box. |
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You can then log in as root on the console, configure networking, and |
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run from there. |
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