I'm getting ready for a remote Gentoo install. I'd like to avoid any sort of CD/USB/floppy usage. I can select a variety of different distros to be preinstalled on the system. Can I end up with the same Gentoo system installing from another distro as I can from a LiveCD? I've read over:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap5 and it sounds like I may not be able to end up with one big root partition like this: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 5 40131 83 Linux /dev/sda2 6 68 506047+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 69 19457 155742142+ 83 Linux If the preinstalled distro has a partition table like this, I won't be able to make a separate partition for Gentoo. If the preinstalled distro has separate large partitions, I will be able to install Gentoo on one of the partitions, but I won't ever be able to set up a partition table like the above with one big root partition. Is that correct or do I have this all wrong? - Grant
