-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 26 August 2003 19:45, Meph Istopheles wrote:
[snippage and rearrangement] > > # mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/gentoo > > # mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot > > # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot > > # mkdir /mnt/gentoo/home > > # mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/gentoo/home > > # mkdir /mnt/gentoo/backup > > # mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/gentoo/backup > > # mkdir /mnt/gentoo/backup2 > > # mount /dev/hdd1 /mnt/gentoo/backup2 > > This is something which caught my eye when I was skimming the > docs: /mnt/gentoo. Is this a system thing, or is there a time > one will actually be editing docs & have to remember that > /mnt/gentoo... is required as opposed to /, which is all I've > done with RH, slack & FreeBSD? Maybe my migrain is effecting my > coherence.... > > Code listing 7.2 shows how to mount a typical simple partition > > layout from _within_ the InstallCD chroot. > > Ah, chroot. I've only used this during rescue operations with > RH. It'll be odd having to do this as a part of install, but > that's cool. Create the directories, mount the partitions, untar the stageX tarball, and chroot into /mnt/gentoo. Using /mnt/gentoo is completely optional, you could make it /a/totally/pointlessly/deep/directory, once you've chroot'd it will be / - -- Mike Williams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/S73XInuLMrk7bIwRAq1rAKCFpx83UZViQOiLPvtekDuEjsHGnACfdIo9 Xz6d2uLticXoG2rZI/cibKA= =kPXN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
