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I've thought about doing this sort of thing in the past and I think it would |
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be pretty tricky if you want to do this completely remotely. (meaning not |
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using an installation cd) This is how I thought about doing it: |
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Resize the partitions on your current hosting server to free up enough space |
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to create a temporary partition to install gentoo to. So for example if |
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your current setup is the following running redhat: |
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/dev/sda1 - /boot (256MB) |
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/dev/sda2 - swap (1GB) |
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/dev/sda3 - / (80GB redhat) |
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you would want to resize so you can do the following: |
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/dev/sda1 - /boot (256MB) |
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/dev/sda2 - swap (1GB) |
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/dev/sda3 - / (75GB redhat) |
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/dev/sda4 - /mnt/gentoo (5GB temp to install gentoo to) |
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then you basically follow the handbook instructions as though you have |
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already booted from the minimal installation cd and install gentoo to |
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/mnt/gentoo, but don't reformat the /dev/sda1 partition. Then, rather than |
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emerging grub, just modify your existing /boot/grub/menu.1st and add a |
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default entry for booting off of /dev/sda4 for gentoo. Reboot and you |
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should boot into your new temporary gentoo installation on /dev/sda4. You |
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can now get rid of /dev/sda1-3, create new partitions however you like |
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(excluding the 5GB /dev/sda4 which you are currently running off of) format |
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them, and follow the handbook instructions as though you just booted from |
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the minimal installation cd. Once you've done this and rebooted into your |
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newly installed gentoo, you can delete /dev/sda4 and recapture that space to |
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whatever partition you really installed gentoo to. |
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The problem I see with this is you would be editing the fs tables of a drive |
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you are currently running off of. If that doesn't work I guess you could |
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set up a boot option that uses a RAM filesystem for the root /, and then you |
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wouldn't be running off of any drives and could therefore fdisk to your |
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hearts content. Whatever you decide, you should probably do a test run on a |
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box you have locally, since one screwup means you or someone else is going |
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to have to physically be at the hosted server to fix it. |
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Tim |
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On 11/1/06, meewi <nuke@×××××.be> wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I would like install Gentoo on my hosting-server. I have full root |
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> access and running Gentoo on my desktop for more then a year now. |
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> But what or where do we find a good guide/doc for installing Gentoo |
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> from a distance when using an ssh connection. |
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> Thanks in advance, |
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> William. |
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