On Monday 16 April 2007, Davi wrote: > Em Segunda 16 Abril 2007 05:19, Crayon escreveu: > > On Monday 16 April 2007 16:05, Dale wrote: > > > But if your system has only one CD and not enough memory to load > > > in cache, you're in a pickle. > > > > I'm not sure why that would be a problem? My system only had one > > cdrom and I managed fine :) > > I don't known how to do it... u.u > So... I need to change my distro on a PC upgrade?? =P
No, not at all. Yoiu don't use a CD to upgrade gentoo, you just run 'emerge -uND world'. To install gentoo, the minimum you require is a running kernel, a network connection and a shell session. From there you chroot into the directory that is going to become your /, unpack a portage tree and binaries copies of some important apps, then emerge the rest. You don't have to use a gentoo CD for that, I've done it from a Red Hat rescue disk, a Knoppix disk and from a working Mandrake install. The gentoo CD does make life easier though if you run into trouble, as everything you will need will be on the disk and you don't have to hunt for stuff. What Dale was saying is that if your machine doesn't have enough memory to run a Gentoo LiveCD or installer, then you have a problem because you can't get the first of the things you must have - a running kernel. But it's been something like 10 years now since I last saw a regular machine that had so little RAm... alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
