On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 03:20:55PM -0500, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
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> On Friday 21 March 2003 21:08, Matthew Kennedy wrote:
> > I always install from stage1 and I never wait for it to compile.
> > Consider building everything you need from which ever stage in a
> > chroot'ed environment on your existing GNU/Linux distribution.  This
> > way you can still be productive while your build proceeds.  When its
> > done, tar it up and reboot to install it.  Down-time for me each time
> > I do this about 20 minutes (the time to reboot and unpack it).
> >
> 
> Of course this is a viable solution. The only problem is that it doesn't work 
> if there is no previous linux distro, just some NTFS partition you don't even 
> know of what it contains.

A Knoppix CD could help.  That's what I use it for.
-- 
Tyler Trafford

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