Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing Suse on my server.

[Michael Sullivan]

On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 16:06 +0000, Anthony Roy wrote:
> 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's my suggestion:

Boot up your 6GB Suse installation (it probably is, isn't it?)  Then
install Gentoo on the 120GB hard drive.  If you're going to eventually
take out the 6GB drive then put boot, swap, and root partions on the
120GB.  After you get everything set up how you want it (to the best of
your knowledge) reboot into your new Gentoo installation.  Keep the 6GB
Suse installation in there until you're sure everything works.  When you
install grub, be sure to list your Suse installation in the grub.conf
file in case something goes wrong with Gentoo.  When you're satisified
with the way Gentoo is working, make your changes to /etc/fstab
and /boot/grub/grub.conf in anticipation of hdb becoming hda, shut down
the machine, take your 6GB out, move your 120GB to its new place, and
reboot.  Keep your rescue disk handy as there's bound to be something I
haven't thought of, having never actually done this myself...
-Michael Sullivan-

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