On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger <[email protected]> wrote: > > I plan to install a fresh gentoo linux in parallel to an existing SLES > 10 server. > > The server runs with /boot and / on 2 raid1 devices, there is a large > RAID6 array building the PV for several logical volumes with data on it. > > The idea is to have the server booted from live media (chroot does not > work as the current kernel of SLES is too old [1] ) ... install the new > gentoo-root into a new LV, set up dracut for an LVM-based root and place > the new kernel and initrd into the existing /boot (with old grub currently).
You should be able to get away with not using a livecd: you don't really need to chroot to get an initial Gentoo system working, *especially if you have console access*. Some pointers: - Unpack your stage tarball. - Build the kernel and initramfs on an existing Gentoo system and copy them over. - Add the gentoo kernel and initramfs to menu.lst. - Clear out the root password in /etc/shadow. - Reboot the box. You can then log in as root on the console, configure networking, and run from there.
