[gentoo-user] Re: Transferring an existing install to new disk

[Harry Putnam]

Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> writes:

> If you're installing to a new disk, do a standard Gentoo install to that
> disk, but do it from your working setup  instead of the live CD
> environment. Your existing installation has all the tools you need to
> build a new setup in a chroot.

I'm having a bit of a thick skulled problem understanding what you
mean above.

I can't think of how I would do a fresh install to a new disk from a
working vmware guest on a different machine or even on the same
machine for that matter.

Can you explain a few details... maybe I'll catch on.