On Tuesday 19 August 2003 13:47, Thomas Page wrote: > I recently downloaded iso's for Gentoo 1.4, and am looking for advice on > the best way to install it. I currently have a mandrake 8.2 box, with a ton > of stuff I've downloaded, medical and electronics info, and I'd rather not > have to back it up onto CD, since I don't have a CDR (yes I know I > should...). > > My question is, is there a "safe" way to install OVER my mandrake (ie > leaving partitions as is), does anyone know of any FAQs/HOWTOs to > accomplish this.
It may possible depending on your partition configuration. How do you currently have them set up? To do it you'd need at least two partitions, one for Mandrake and your data and the other for your new install of Gentoo. You'd then prepare your Gentoo partition, mount it, extract your stage tarball from the iso image (mounted with -o loop) to the Gentoo partition, chroot to it and continue with the installation guide. This sort of installation is a bit of a pain in the rear-end, and I don't suggest you attempt it unless know exactly what you want to do from the beginning and are sure you have enough space on your partitions to be able to do it. Once the base installation is done, you'd then want to move data according to your desired partition layout and get rid of that unnecessary Mandrake stuff! ;-) See the Alternative Installation Guide for more details about how to install from a previous distro. Regards, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
