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