On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 15:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry if this is duplicate. I thought I'd sent it already, but wasn't seeing > it come back to me. > > I'm looking for options to upgrade a system that's currently > running another distribution of linux to Gentoo. This system is > doing production work, so I want to minimize downtime and have a way > to backout the new load if I'm having problems. I have an extra hard > drive that I could swap in. > > I've heard that there are ways to prebuild binaries from Gentoo > sources to speed up an install, but I can't find them documented > anywhere. > > Is it an option to stick the hard drive in a different computer > and install Gentoo, or will it not likely boot once moved? > > Anyway, any ideas would be appreciated.
Take a look at these two guides/sections, in addition to the regular installation guide. Spider, I hope you're OK with me linking to yours. =) http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap7 http://dev.gentoo.org/~spider/migration-guide.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
