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Matthias Bethke schreef: |
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> Hi Anthony, on Sunday, 2005-10-30 at 16:06:47, you wrote: |
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>> The main reason for my interest in Gentoo was to replace Suse on my |
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>> server, since it looked promising in the control I have over the |
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>> installation. |
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>> My question is this: I want to replace Suse on the server with the |
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>> minimal amount of server downtime (I won't have time to do a |
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>> complete installation in one sitting - the Gentoo install I expect |
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>> to take a number of weeks to set up before it will have the |
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>> necessary software installed to replace Suse). |
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> I'm just in the process of doing the same thing. |
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I would also like to point out that the SuSE installer has a special |
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condition that I have not seen elsewhere: copy your current install to |
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another location. |
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I don't have a server, but I used this function to move my then-current |
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SuSE install from one drive to another (from the emergency drive I had |
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installed when I last broke Gentoo) to a semi-permanent partition on the |
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drive where I now have Gentoo installed). Because the operation was a |
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'copy' of my current install, it wasn't bad at all in terms of downtime |
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(there were a couple of minor errors, iirc), and I was able to do a |
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normal alternative install from within the SuSE installation. Since the |
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old SuSE installation was redundant, I was able to remove the emergency |
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drive 'immediately' (had I so desired, but I didn't get around to it all |
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that quick, since I was more interested in getting Gentoo installed). |
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Obviously server settings and data are a separate issue, but it seemed |
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relevant to mention the functionality, which seems specific to SuSE. |
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Holly |
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