i was using a delivery service to get my harddrive (replace it in my case) the first had some problems and the delivery guy wouldn't wait for me so i had no chance to even make a full back up i lost a lot of data in the process including my gentoo and some homeworks
On 2/7/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 10:38 +0200, Ghaith Hachem wrote: > > hello > > i was trying to reinstall gentoo after i changed harddrives but i have > > a little time problem i cant' keep my system unusable for more then an > > hour i have windows XP and i have write support to my ext3 partitions > > is there a way i can use cygwin to install the sytem? it's probably > > impossible but i just want to make sure. > > you can't chroot to the new install from your existing gentoo install? > (That's what I did) then swap out the HD when you're done... > -- > Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au> > > Forecast, n.: > A prediction of the future, based on the past, for > which the forecaster demands payment in the present. > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Cheers, Ghaith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
