Matthias Bethke schreef: > Hi Anthony, on Sunday, 2005-10-30 at 16:06:47, you wrote: > >> The main reason for my interest in Gentoo was to replace Suse on my >> server, since it looked promising in the control I have over the >> installation. >> >> My question is this: I want to replace Suse on the server with the >> minimal amount of server downtime (I won't have time to do a >> complete installation in one sitting - the Gentoo install I expect >> to take a number of weeks to set up before it will have the >> necessary software installed to replace Suse). > > > I'm just in the process of doing the same thing.
I would also like to point out that the SuSE installer has a special condition that I have not seen elsewhere: copy your current install to another location. I don't have a server, but I used this function to move my then-current SuSE install from one drive to another (from the emergency drive I had installed when I last broke Gentoo) to a semi-permanent partition on the drive where I now have Gentoo installed). Because the operation was a 'copy' of my current install, it wasn't bad at all in terms of downtime (there were a couple of minor errors, iirc), and I was able to do a normal alternative install from within the SuSE installation. Since the old SuSE installation was redundant, I was able to remove the emergency drive 'immediately' (had I so desired, but I didn't get around to it all that quick, since I was more interested in getting Gentoo installed). Obviously server settings and data are a separate issue, but it seemed relevant to mention the functionality, which seems specific to SuSE. Holly -- [email protected] mailing list
