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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 |