[gentoo-user] Replacing Suse on my server.

[Anthony Roy]

Hi all,

I am new to Gentoo, but having made a test install on one of my
machines, so far I am impressed.

The main reason for my interest in Gentoo was to replace Suse on my
server, since it looked promising in the control I have over the
installation.

My question is this: I want to replace Suse on the server with the
minimal amount of server downtime (I won't have time to do a complete
installation in one sitting - the Gentoo install I expect to take a
number of weeks to set up before it will have the necessary software
installed to replace Suse). I also want to ditch one of the drives in
that box (I have a 120GB drive which I want to keep, and a 6GB drive
which I want to remove). The 6GB drive currently has the Suse
installation on it.

Here is the current setup:

hda - 6GB.
hda1 - /boot
hda2 - swap
hda3 - /
hdb1 - /srv
hdb2 - /home

And my current plan:

1) Repartition hdb to add root, swap and boot partition of about 10GB
for root (what tools can I use in order to keep the data intact on hdb
whilst partitioning?)

2) Install Gentoo on the new partition with grub set up to boot from
hda and hdb. This way I can run Suse whilst not actively installing
Gentoo.

3) Once Gentoo is running the necessary software (the minimum is
probably ssh, an FTP server, Subversion and apache with mod_python).

So far so good. But what is necessary to remove the old drive? The
plan is to move the 120GB drive into the hda position. Clearly I will
have to edit grub.conf, and fstab, but are there any other things I
will need to think about.

Cheers,
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Anthony Roy

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