i was trying to reinstall gentoo after i changed harddrives but i have
a little time problem i cant' keep my system unusable for more then an
hour i have windows XP and i have write support to my ext3 partitions
is there a way i can use cygwin to install the sytem? it's probably
impossible
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 10:38 +0200, Ghaith Hachem wrote:
hello
i was trying to reinstall gentoo after i changed harddrives but i have
a little time problem i cant' keep my system unusable for more then an
hour i have windows XP and i have write support to my ext3 partitions
is there a way i
i was using a delivery service to get my harddrive (replace it in my
case) the first had some problems and the delivery guy wouldn't wait
for me so i had no chance to even make a full back up i lost a lot of
data in the process including my gentoo and some homeworks
On 2/7/06, Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:20:47 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
you can't chroot to the new install from your existing gentoo install?
(That's what I did) then swap out the HD when you're done...
For that matter, why not use partimage/rsync/tar to copy your existing
installation for the old drive to
On 2/7/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:20:47 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
you can't chroot to the new install from your existing gentoo install?
(That's what I did) then swap out the HD when you're done...
For that matter, why not use partimage/rsync/tar to
On 2/7/06, Ryan Viljoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you can mount the ext3 partition in cygwin and you can use wget
then I dont see why you can't do so, setup the basic system and then
see if you can chroot it. I havent used cygwin extensively though.
stuck on the chroot with a /bin/bash
On 2/7/06, Ghaith Hachem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
stuck on the chroot with a /bin/bash command not found in cygwin i
hope i can find a solution soon
Probably no solution to be found. The bash in the chroot environment
is going to be dynamically linked against a glibc that expects a linux
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Ghaith Hachem wrote:
hello
i was trying to reinstall gentoo after i changed harddrives but i have
a little time problem i cant' keep my system unusable for more then an
hour i have windows XP and i have write support to my ext3 partitions
is there a way i can use cygwin to
well there was a miracle today i got 3 free hours to manage to install
the system up to the bootloader but what i really need is X since this
is the family pc :-P
the vmware idea is nice.. but i don't know about it can i load a hole
drive as my virtual harddrive?
On 2/7/06, Steven S. [EMAIL
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 22:20:19 +0200, Ghaith Hachem wrote:
well there was a miracle today i got 3 free hours to manage to install
the system up to the bootloader but what i really need is X since this
is the family pc :-P
Install X and a desktop from a GRP CD, it will only take a few minutes.
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 21:42 +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 22:20:19 +0200, Ghaith Hachem wrote:
well there was a miracle today i got 3 free hours to manage to install
the system up to the bootloader but what i really need is X since this
is the family pc :-P
Install X
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Ghaith Hachem wrote:
well there was a miracle today i got 3 free hours to manage to install
the system up to the bootloader but what i really need is X since this
is the family pc :-P
the vmware idea is nice.. but i don't know about it can i load a hole
drive as my virtual
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:17:41 -0600
Michael Sullivan wrote:
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 21:42 +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 22:20:19 +0200, Ghaith Hachem wrote:
well there was a miracle today i got 3 free hours to manage to install
the system up to the bootloader but what i
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:17:41 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
A couple of years ago I was reading in the Gentoo Handbook about GRP,
and I saw something that I understood to mean that I could not use GRP
packages and custom-built packages on the same system. Is this true?
No. You can use them
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