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Grant wrote: |
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> I'm getting ready for a remote Gentoo install. I'd like to avoid any |
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> sort of CD/USB/floppy usage. I can select a variety of different |
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> distros to be preinstalled on the system. Can I end up with the same |
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> Gentoo system installing from another distro as I can from a LiveCD? |
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> I've read over: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap5 |
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> and it sounds like I may not be able to end up with one big root |
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> partition like this: |
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> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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> /dev/sda1 1 5 40131 83 Linux |
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> /dev/sda2 6 68 506047+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris |
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> /dev/sda3 69 19457 155742142+ 83 Linux |
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> If the preinstalled distro has a partition table like this, I won't be |
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> able to make a separate partition for Gentoo. If the preinstalled |
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> distro has separate large partitions, I will be able to install Gentoo |
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> on one of the partitions, but I won't ever be able to set up a |
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> partition table like the above with one big root partition. |
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> Is that correct or do I have this all wrong? |
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> - Grant |
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That is basically correct, you can't remove the root partition, while it |
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is in use.... |
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What you could do though, depending on how big that boot partition is, |
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is copy the live CD to the boot partition, set a boot option to boot |
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that as the root, and then do your normal install in the main big |
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partition..... |
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I've never done, or tried this, but it should work....The minimal |
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install cd is ~50MB I think.... |
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All that said, I'm an LVM guy myself, and like to have a few partitions |
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about for different things depensding on the machines usage. :) |
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