On Wednesday 10 May 2006 9:55 am, Jon wrote: > > You could create a loopback device and do your install on that now, then > > when you get your shiny new toy just tar it up & move it over, install a > > boot loader & cross your fingers. Pre-emptive strike! > > Wha? I don't even understand that sentence never mind able to implement it. > > :) >
A loopback device is (usually) a way to mount a file like it was a device. The process simplified looks like: (create the file, say 5GB should be plenty) #dd if=/dev/zero of=~/diskimage bs=1024M count=5 (then you format it as if it was a disk) #mke2fs -j ~/diskimage (then mount it and begin your install) #mount -o loop ~/diskimage /mnt/gentoo (after completing your install, make sure to unmount pseudo filesystems used in the installation) #umount /mnt/gentoo/dev #umount /mnt/gentoo/proc (tar it up, making sure to be in the right spot & preserve permissions) #cd /mnt/gentoo #tar -cvjpf ~/diskimage.tar.bz * Then on the new machine, boot with knoppix, partition the drive (lets assume the new partition is hda1) #mke2fs -j /dev/hda1 #mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 #cd /mnt/hda1 (likely use scp at this point to copy the tar file you created to /mnt/hda1) #tar -xvjpf diskimage.tar.bz (proceed with bootloader install) It looks harder than it is, I promise :) I'm sure someone will find a glaring error above... Nick _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
